Husband pours acid on his wife

Gulbarga, Dec 7 (UNI) In a bizzare of incident, a drunkard husband poured acid on his wife at Rekulgi Village in Humnabad Taluk in Bidar District, about 40 km from here today.

Police said that Digambar married Anjamma, a Governent School Teacher about 10 years ago and since then he had been harassing her for money. She seperated from him and had been staying with her parents at Bhangori village since last two years.

While she was going to school, the accused waylaid and attacked her. When she tried to escape, he chased her and poured acid on her face. She was rushed to the Governent Hospital in Bidar, where Doctors said that she had sustained 75 per cent burns and condition is serious.

Five others, including a girl student, who came to her rescue, also sustained burn injures and they were also treated in the same hospital.

The accused was arrested.

UNI