An unidentified man hurled a bottle of acid at a 35-year-old woman and her 4-year-old son in Bharat Nagar area of North West Delhi, police said on Thursday.

According to the police, the woman who runs a roadside stall in the area, was setting up shop in Guru Bazar at around 8 am on Thursday morning when the unidentified miscreant came towards her from a nearby park, threw acid at her and fled the scene.

The woman and her minor son sustained minor burn injuries in the attack and were hospitalized, the police said.

An official said the woman filed complaint and gave information about her attacker based on which a case was registered under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and a hunt launched to nab the suspect.

He said that initial investigations suggest personal animosity as the motive behind the attack, adding that further probe is underway.

In a similar case, a shocking incident was reported on Thursday from Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore where a man allegedly hurled a bottle of acid on his wife and her lawyers at the district court complex.

According to the police, the victim, Kavitha had reached the district court complex in Coimbatore in connection with a hearing of a case when her husband, Sivakumar, brazenly threw a bottle of acid at her face, injuring her and at least three others in the attack.

The victims, Kavitha and her lawyers, sustained burn injuries in the acid attack and were rushed to a nearby government hospital for medical attention.

An official said Sivakumar was overpowered and pinned down by some lawyers who witnessed the incident and later handed over to the police.

Giving details he said that police saved Sivakumar from a mob that gathered after the attack and wanted to thrash him, adding that the accused had carried the acid in a water bottle.

The official further said that the accused has been arrested and a case registered against him under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), adding that further investigation is underway to determine Sivakumar’s motive behind the attack.

The BJP-AAP ‘poster war’ continues in Delhi as the saffron party-sponsored posters calling for the removal of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal were seen plastered in parts of the national capital on Thursday, days after similar posters were posted by “anonymous” persons targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The anti-Kejriwal posters with the slogan ‘Arvind Kejriwal ko hatao, Dilli Bachao (Remove Arvind Kejriwal, Save Delhi’ with a header calling the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Corrupt, Dishonest and Dictator—were reported seen pasted in Delhi this morning, two days after the Delhi Police’s crackdown on anti-Modi posters which read ‘Modi hatao, desh bachao (remove Modi, save the country.’

The anti-Kejriwal posters were allegedly put up by BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa.

The posters calling for the removal of PM Modi to “save the country” were removed during a large-scale crackdown by the Police on Tuesday, which also led to the arrest of six accused, including two printing press owners.

The arrested printing press owners allegedly told the police that they had received an order to print 50,000 “Modi hatao, desh bachao” posters.

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Police said the arrests were made for defacing public property and under the law, the posters were required to carry the name of the printing press. They said that only 36 cases out of 138 filed were for the anti-Modi posters.

According to the Delhi Police, they reportedly seized around 2,000 posters that were on their way to being delivered in a van to the AAP office.

However, Delhi CM Kejriwal trashed the police version of the arrests and claimed that the Prime Minister is “scared” and “insecure.”

Later, in a tweet, the Kejriwal-led AAP termed the police action as the “peak of Modi government’s dictatorship” as asked what was objectionable in the posters. AAP has also announced a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar today to demand the removal of PM Modi.

The BJP accused the AAP of violating the law by putting up such posters, notably, however, the former never acknowledged the act.

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The weatherman has predicted moderate to heavy rainfall accompanied by gusty winds and thunderstorms in the Delhi-NCR region today. Hailstorms are also likely.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for the national capital and its adjoining areas, including Noida and Gurugram, even as moderate-heavy showers accompanied by thunderstorms are predicted in several cities in the country, especially in Northwest and Eastern India.

According to the regional meteorological centre, cloudy skies, thunderstorms accompanied by light to moderate showers are predicted in Delhi over the course of next seven days. The national capital city and its adjoining areas will also likely experience gusty winds and hailstorms at some places.

According to the seven-day forecast, maximum temperatures during this spell are likely to remain around a pleasant 26 degrees Celsius while the minimum temperatures can dip as low as 16 degrees during night hours.

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The pleasant weather is likely to last for the entire week in Delhi and surrounding areas even as the weatherman has predicted rain along with hailstorms till Monday evening.

On Sunday, rains and hailstorms lashed parts of Delhi-NCR resulting in a drop in the mercury as the maximum temperature dipped three degrees below the season’s average to around 28 degrees Celsius, according to the IMD.

A PTI report quoting IMD regional forecasting centre chief Kuldeep Srivastava said that an active western disturbance over northwest India is causing rain in the region and hailstorms in some areas.

Srivastava said that another western disturbance will start affecting the region (from) Sunday while cloudy skies and on-and-off rain will continue over northwest India till March 21.

He said that precipitation is predicted to peak on March 20 and will result in a drop in mercury, adding that a hailstorm is forecasted in parts of northwest India, including Delhi-NCR, on Monday.

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