Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The saying held true in a case in Bengaluru where a 26-year-old female nurse was arrested for allegedly spraying acid on her ex-boyfriend’s face and slashing his cheeks with a scalpel after the boy refused to marry her.
The incident comes across at a time of increasing incidents of acid attacks on women, most of them done by their ex-lovers or stalkers.
The victim, identified as 32-year-old L Jayakumar, a cloth merchant from Prakashnagar, has sustained burns on the neck and deep cuts on both cheeks. He is undergoing treatment at a private hospital and is out of danger now.
According to a Times of India report, the Bengaluru Police, found in their investigation that the accused, Lidia Fisiba, a resident old Srirampura, had carried the acid used to wash toilets in her hospital in a bottle and sprayed it on Jayakumar when he arrived at a temple in Vijayanagar on Monday evening.
Lidia has been booked under IPC sections 341 (wrongful restraint) and 307B (attempt to murder).
The two fell in love in 2011 but parted ways in October last year as their families were against their relationship. Jayakumar lives near Lidia’s residence and both have studied in the same private school near Sehadripuram.
According to the report, Jayakumar had promised Lidia that he would not marry any other woman. However, the relation started turning bitter after Lidia began forcing him to convert his religion before marriage.
“Jayakumar told her that he will marry Lidia but won't change his religion. But Lidia was of the opinion that her family would accept the marriage only if Jayakumar converted,” a police official was quoted as saying.
Lidia told the police that after some time, Jayakumar ended the relationship. After a few months, she came to know through some of her neighbours that Jayakumar’s family was looking for a girl for him.
After her attempts to convince Jayakumar against the marriage turned to knot, the accused decided to deface hm.
Lidia knew that Jayakumar visited a temple on Vijayanagar Pipeline Road every Monday. She went there with her cousin Sunil Kumar in a car. At around 5 pm, Jayakumar, along with one of his family members, arrived on his bike. Lidia rushed towards him and sprayed acid on his face before attacking him with a surgical blade.
