<div align="justify">Three women constables of the Uttar Pradesh Police were suspended on Friday for taking selfies with a gang-rape and acid attack victim while she was undergoing treatment at a hospital. <br /><br />The 45-year-old woman, who worked at a coffee shop managed exclusively by acid-attack survivors, had been gang-raped and attacked with acid at Unchahar in 2009. A case was registered, but the culprits remain at large. She had acid thrown at her again in 2013.<br /><br />“There was some dispute over a property between the family of the victim and the culprits,” a police officer said.<br /><br />On Thursday, the woman was returning to Lucknow by the Ganga-Gomti Express when some youths forced her to drink acid, even as other passengers remained mute spectators. She lodged a report with the Government Railway Police (GRP) at the Lucknow station. A GRP constable has been suspended for dereliction of duty.<br /><br />She was then taken to the King George’s Medical University for treatment where three women constables, deployed to protect her, took selfies with the victim lying in the hospital <br />bed.<br /><br />A Satish Ganesh, IG (Lucknow Zone), termed the three constables “insensitive” and promised action. They were suspended and a probe has been ordered.<br /><br />Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and state Minister for Women and Child Welfare Reeta Bahuguna Joshi visited the hospital and met the victim and her family.<br /><br />Adityanath announced an assistance of Rs 1 lakh to the victim. The police claimed to have arrested the two accused.<br /><br /></div>
<div align="justify">Three women constables of the Uttar Pradesh Police were suspended on Friday for taking selfies with a gang-rape and acid attack victim while she was undergoing treatment at a hospital. <br /><br />The 45-year-old woman, who worked at a coffee shop managed exclusively by acid-attack survivors, had been gang-raped and attacked with acid at Unchahar in 2009. A case was registered, but the culprits remain at large. She had acid thrown at her again in 2013.<br /><br />“There was some dispute over a property between the family of the victim and the culprits,” a police officer said.<br /><br />On Thursday, the woman was returning to Lucknow by the Ganga-Gomti Express when some youths forced her to drink acid, even as other passengers remained mute spectators. She lodged a report with the Government Railway Police (GRP) at the Lucknow station. A GRP constable has been suspended for dereliction of duty.<br /><br />She was then taken to the King George’s Medical University for treatment where three women constables, deployed to protect her, took selfies with the victim lying in the hospital <br />bed.<br /><br />A Satish Ganesh, IG (Lucknow Zone), termed the three constables “insensitive” and promised action. They were suspended and a probe has been ordered.<br /><br />Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and state Minister for Women and Child Welfare Reeta Bahuguna Joshi visited the hospital and met the victim and her family.<br /><br />Adityanath announced an assistance of Rs 1 lakh to the victim. The police claimed to have arrested the two accused.<br /><br /></div>