Kanpur: A minor argument over the price of medicine at a pharmacy turned into a horrific assault on a 22-year-old law student in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, leaving him critically injured, Hindustan Times reported.
The victim, identified as Abhijeet Singh Chandel, a first-year LLB student, was attacked near a pharmacy in the Kalyanpur area on October 25 after he objected to being overcharged for a medicine. The shop owner and his associates allegedly assaulted him with sharp weapons, the report said.
The attackers — identified as Amar Singh Chauhan, his brother Vijay Singh, and two others — hit Chandel so brutally that “his abdomen split open and two fingers were chopped off,” Hindustan Times reported. He also suffered deep injuries to the head that required 14 stitches.
Family had to tie intestines with cloth
Chandel’s family had to tie his intestines with a cloth as they rushed him to the nearest emergency room, PTI reported. “The locals rushed him to four different hospitals, but he was denied admission at all of them due to the severity of his injuries,” the report quoted an officer as saying. Chandel was eventually admitted to Regency Hospital, where doctors operated on him for over two hours.
“The victim’s condition is critical but stable now. Three of the accused, including the pharmacy owner, have been arrested, and efforts are on to nab the fourth,”ACP Kalyanpur Ranjeet Kumar told Hindustan Times.
Accused filed counter case
Chandel’s family told the newspaper that the accused even “filed a counter case accusing him of extortion” after the assault. His mother alleged that her son “was attacked for simply questioning the inflated price of a medicine.”
Police have registered a case under sections of attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy. The investigation is underway, and the arrested accused are being interrogated, officials said.