By IANS,
Hyderabad : A 16-year-old girl died Sunday following an acid attack by a jilted lover in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district, police said.
Lalita Bai, a Class 9 student, died at a government hospital in Guntur after battling for life for four days. The girl had sustained serious injuries in the acid attack by K. Subba Rao, 23, in Tenali town Wednesday.
Subba Rao, an agricultural labourer, was also injured as after throwing acid on the girl he splashed acid on himself and is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital. He told police that he resorted to the step as the girl had stopped talking to him and was seeing another man.
Subba Rao is a native of Darsi village in Prakasam district while Lalita was a resident of Venigalla village near Tenali. He attacked the girl at Tenali when she went to her elder sister’s house.
According to police, he got familiar with the girl when she visited her sister-in-law in Darsi for a function a few years ago. Since then, he maintained contact with the girl over telephone.
Lalita had stopped talking to him on the advice of her parents. Angered by this, he arrived in Tenali and attacked the girl. Police have registered a case against Subba Rao.
The incident has again brought into focus acid attacks on women. The state is mulling a tough legislation to deal with the increasing number of such attacks.
In Gutur district alone, five acid attacks took place last year. In December 2008, an engineering student in Warangal was killed and her friend was injured when three youths threw acid on them.