In the news item “Acid attack on IAS officer’s daughter” published on Thursday, Nilshu Gupte was wrongly identified as an IAS officer’s daughter. It was a case of mistaken identity. Nilshu and her husband (not her boyfriend, as reported) Karthik Srinivasan, had been attacked by unidentified motorcyclists in the HSR Layout police station limits. There was another case of an acid attack on a couple in the same area which created the confusion about identities.
Some other details in the report like the assailants manhandling and molesting the victim are also not correct. The photograph that accompanied the story was only a symbolic picture and not that of Nilshu. We deeply regret the error.