SAHIWAL – A girl was forced to drink acid by a boy for refusing to talk on the mobile phone in an area of Sahiwal.
The victim, 16, is battling for life at a hospital where her condition is critical, reports said. Police have registered a case against a suspect named Usman on a complaint lodged by a family member of the girl.
The First Information Report (FIR) states that the family had previously rejected his marriage proposal for the girl. Later the suspect had tried to give a mobile phone to the girl to talk.
After the girl refused to talk to him, he alleged forced her to drink acid.
It is recalled that a woman had killed two children by making them drink acid after her husband, who lived abroad, threatened to divorce her.
Among the dead children were 6-year-old Ahal and 7-year-old Sahil.
