A Hindu girl was stabbed several times by a Muslim man on October 6 after she allegedly refused his marriage proposal, reports HinduVoice. The incident happened near the Narangi military cantonment area of Assam’s largest city Guwahati.
According to locals, Rafiq Ali (23) attacked Anjali Biswas (21) with a sharp knife when she was on her way to work, walking through an alley. In the brutal attack, Ali stabbed her in the hand, eye, face, neck, chest and belly. Hearing her screams, locals rushed to her rescue while the attacker fled. Rafiq Ali was arrested the next day.
Anjali was taken to Guwahati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), where she was operated upon and remains in ICU.
One of the emergency room doctors said, “She was stabbed brutally. One of her eyes is seriously damaged. Her hand has several cut marks. There are cut marks in her breast, face, neck and belly. The stabbing in the belly is so intense that there are several cut marks in her liver”.
According to locals that HinduVoice spoke to, Anjali was in a relationship with Rafiq which she ended around one year back. After that he started stalking her and threatened her to marry him.
A Guwahati-based portal has quoted an ASI of Satgaon Police Station as saying that the victim and her attacker were neighbors in Kochpara Block A and the attack was related to a ‘clash between the two families’.
