LUCKNOW: A gang-rape and acid attack survivor has once again been attacked with acid in Aliganj locality here, police said on Sunday.

This was the fifth attack on the woman, they said. The latest incident took place on Saturday night near a hostel where she resides.

She was rushed to a hospital where her condition was said to be stable. She has sustained burn injuries on her face and neck, according to police, adding that no FIR has been registered so far as they are waiting for a complaint. A probe is under way, they said.

On March 23, the woman was allegedly forced to drink acid by two men on board a train near here.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had visited her at a hospital and announced a compensation of Rs100,000 for the 45-year-old woman.

The incident came to light when the woman got off the Allahabad-Lucknow Ganga Gomti Express at Charbagh Station here and gave a written complaint to the railway police. She wrote the complaint because she could not speak. According to the complaint, two persons had forced her to drink acid.

Earlier, two men had allegedly raped and attacked her with acid over a property dispute in 2009 in her home at Unchahar, about 100 kilometres from Lucknow.

The woman works with Sheroes Hangout Cafe, an outlet run by acid attack survivors in Lucknow.

In 2012 the woman was attacked with a knife and in 2013 with acid, police sources said.

By arrangement with the Times of India

Published in Dawn, July 3rd, 2017