A 25-year-old female engineer was allegedly attacked with bleaching (caustic) powder by an unidentified person in Kalyan. The accused decamped with a bag containing a laptop. The incident took place at the Kalyan Railway parking lot on Saturday around 2.30 PM when the victim was alighting from Kalyan station and was on her way of outside station.
According to Kolsewadi police, the victim is an engineer by profession worked in a Mumbai Mumbai-based IT company, and lived with a family member in the Andheri area in Mumbai. The victim left Andheri towards Kalyan's Nandivli village in Kalyan to meet her relative when an unidentified person attacked her with bleaching powder at her face and decamped with the bag.
The local rushed to the spot when she was screaming about the act done by the accused. Later, she approached to police station and narrated the entire incident to the police.
A case was lodged under section 394 (Voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery) of IPC. The victim approached the police station and police registered a case against an unknown person and started to investigate the matter.
Accroding to senior police inspector Ashok Kadam, Kolsewadi police station said, "We lodged a case against unknown person. We formed a team to trace the accused. We are going through CCTV footage installed in victnity. We will nab him soon." Kadam further added that prima facie, the accused committed the robbery after snatching her bag by attacking bleaching powder at her and fled from scene.
