Acid attack victim tops exam, bags job with Infy

Warangal, Jun 6: Suffering 60 per cent burns and loosing a friend in an acid attack doesn't seem to stop Pranita. A vicitim of a horrid acid attack, Pranita has secured a fifth rank in engineering final year exams.

According to a Times Of India report, Pranita has also bagged a job with the software giant Infosys, and will soon be in Mysore for training.

"I will join Infosys next January. But my aim is to become an IAS officer," Pranita was quoted as saying. She gave God, her classmates and lecturers the credit for her success.

She said that she was not able to move her fingers due to the attack and it was her mother to helped her study. Pranita's mother, Subhashini sat and turned the text book pages for her daughter to study. Dressed in bandages, Pranita worte her exam in a separate room at the collage.

The attack was launched by Srinivas Rao, a lover of Pranita's friend Swapnika who died in the incident. Srinivas Rao and two others who were accused in the case were reportedly killed in a police encounter two days after the attack. The incident took place in Dec 2008. Both Swapnika and Pranita were students of Kakatiya Institute of Science and Technology at Warangal.

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