A woman lawyer was allegedly attacked with an inflammable substance in a Moradabad court by two male litigants, police on Saturday said.
The incident took place Thursday at around 10.30 am in a court in Thakurdwara tehsil.
Advocate Shashibala in her complaint said her tenant Satyendra dropped her near the main gate of the court. About a minute later, Sachin Kumar and his relative Nitin Kumar, who were hiding there, threw some inflammable substance on her from behind, she said.
The two are residents of Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand, police said. Shashibala said one of them also put a country-made pistol to her temple and said, “today we will give you a very good gift.” The two decamped when she raised an alarm and drew the attention of other lawyers.
The chemical burned her clothes and parts of her body.
India: Chemical attack on woman advocate, gun put to her head in Uttar Pradesh court
