NEW DELHI, Nov 14 (INP): A 23-year-old Russian woman sustained burns and severe injuries on her face, eyes, hands and body after a man whose marriage proposal she allegedly spurned attacked her with acid Friday in Varanasi.
Police said the tourist, Darya Yurieva, arrived in the city three days ago and was staying as a paying guest at Hriday Lal Srivastava’s house, located in Nand Nagar colony in the heart of Varanasi. She had stayed at the same house for three months during a previous visit.
She told the police that Hriday’s grandson, Siddhartha Srivastava, attacked her and hurled acid at her, when she was sleeping in the balcony of her third-floor room, raising concerns about the continuing easy availability of acid despite orders restricting their sale.