Girl held for hurling acid

A 17-year old girl and her mother were sent to jail in a case filed over an acid-attack in Jamalpur on Friday evening.

A senior judicial magistrate's court gave the order after the duo was produced before the court with a five-day remand prayer at around 6:00pm, said court inspector Abdul Kader.

Magistrate Nazmul Haque fixed 19 March for the hearing of the remand prayer, said the court inspector.

The accused are Bhabna Aktar Riya, 17, of Rashidpur village under Jamalpur municipality, and her mother Hasi Begum Sujeda.

The acid victim, Mahmudul Hasan Maruf, 17, of the same village, is a first year student of Jamalpur Technical School and College.

Riya, a first year HSC student of Jhawgora Bangabandhu College in Melandah upazila of the district, had been harassing Maruf by making romantic advances, but Maruf did not reciprocate, said Tariqul Islam, sub-inspector of Jamalpur Sadar Police Station and also investigation officer (IO) of the case.

Around 9:30pm on Thursday, when Maruf, along with one of his friends, was passing by Riya's home, she asked him to come inside to fix a faulty electric line he had previously repaired.

Maruf agreed but said he would do so during the day time. Suddenly, Riya threw something on his face which burned a portion of it, said the IO quoting the case statement.

Hearing his screams, locals rushed him to Jamalpur General Hospital from where he was shifted to the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday.

The victim's father filed a case over the acid attack with the police station accusing the duo on the same day.

Police raided Riya's house at midnight and detained the girl and her mother, said Nasimul Islam, officer-in-charge of the police station.