Teenaged girl forced to drink acid

A teenage girl was allegedly forced to drink acid by youths who had molested her in east Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district and police have been accused by her father of dithering on registering a complaint and trying to pass off the incident as an attempted suicide.

The girl’s father, a marginal farmer, alleged that although his 17-year-old daughter had been molested by five youths on June 5, the police registered the case five days later on June 10, that too after he dropped the names of two of the accused, rich landlords, from his complaint.

The police had said the girl had tried to commit suicide by drinking a floor-cleaning chemical after being scolded by her parents for going out on a motorcycle with one of the accused youths. Devendra Nath, the superintendent of police, told reporters on Sunday that he would monitor the case.

Update by Sirsha Gupta