Bhiwani man attacks minor daughter with acid, arrested

A man attacked his 17-year-old daughter with acid, causing serious burns on her face and other body parts at a village in Bhiwani district on August 3. The police registered the case on August 7 after recording the statement of the victim who was admitted in the PGIMS at Rohtak and arrested the accused father.

The incident occurred during the daytime at the residence of the victim when the accused father was reportedly drunk.

Shockingly, the father played music at a high volume at the time of the incident and later pushed the girl inside a water tank and closed the lid of the tank to suppress her screams.

Sources said that some neighbours took the girl, who is a school student, to the hospital in Bhiwani and later she was shifted to the PGIMS at Rothak in serious condition. The girl’s mother had died some time ago and she also has a younger brother aged 15.

The police said that the father reportedly attacked the girl as he got infuriated over her asking for money.

Bhiwani SP Manbir Singh said that there was no delay on part of the police in registering the FIR as the police immediately registered the case on recording the statement of the victim. The police have also arrested the accused, he said.

However, social activist and former member of the Haryana State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (HCPCR) Sushil Verma has sent an application to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) regarding the incident seeking intervention of the commission and sought the victim's protection, medical care and rehabilitation.

In the complaint to the NHRC, Verma termed it a "horrific incident of domestic violence, acid attack and attempted murder", in which a girl was mercilessly attacked with acid by her own father inside their house. “Shockingly, this is not the first such violent incident involving the accused,” he alleged in a complaint while seeking an inquiry into the death of his wife as well.

The police stated that the accused is an alcohol-addict. Sources stated that disputes regularly happened at the house. Police sources said that the accused used to work as a battery operator, which is why acid was kept in the house.