Attackers still at large, police clueless

Bismah Malik

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, December 16

Even after six days, the police are clueless about the attackers who threw acid on a girl in Srinagar on December 11.

Meanwhile, the police have taken some eyewitness accounts to make sketches of the attackers.

The Superintendent of Police (SP), Hazratbal, Rayees Ahmad, heading the Special Investigation team (SIT), constituted by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir, to probe the case, told The Tribune that the acid attack victim had not divulged much in her statement to the police.

“She just said there is nobody in particular whom she suspects of attacking her. Her statement wasn’t of much help to us. We have talked to her friends, family and other eyewitnesses who might help us in making sketches of the assailants. We will later release them (sketches) on the social media.” the Hazratbal SP said, adding that the CCTV footage acquired from Srinagar Airport has not led to any major lead in the case.

Meanwhile, IGP, Kashmir, AG Mir today called a meeting of senior officers to review the investigation into the case. The IGP directed the SIT that different teams, which had fanned out in all directions, should track down the guilty at the earliest. He sought a daily briefing from the investigators on the progress and developments in the case.

He emphasised that besides a professional requirement to nab the culprits, “it was a challenge to our moral consciousness to eradicate this menace from our society”.

The victim, who is a law student at a college in Srinagar, is battling to regain the vision in her right eye at a Chennai hospital after a temporary lens transplant was done on her.

She was attacked by two unidentified men on Thursday morning when she was on her way to college.