Summary:
In fact, the first acid attack case was recorded in Kolkata in 2016, when two such incidents took place in the city.NCRB annual crime report shows that 2016 recorded 283 incidents and 307 victims under sections 326A (acid attack) and 326B (attempt to carry out acid attack) of the IPC in India. “Doctors have told us that this was not pure acid and hence they are hopeful that the victim would recover,” said a police source.The last recorded acid attack happened in Kolkata in 2018 at Anandapur. In 2017, there was an acid attack attempt on a 25-year-old woman in Behala’s Parnasree. KOLKATA: A 34-year-old woman, residing near Ajeyo Sanghati club at Haridevpur in southwest Kolkata, was allegedly attacked with an “acid-like substance over a property dispute” while she was returning home on Wednesday evening. Twenty-six percent of the incidents and 27% of the victims were from West Bengal ..