Yogi Adityanath meets gang-rape survivor, who was forced to drink acid, at Lucknow hospital; two arrested

 Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday met a gang-rape survivor who was forced to drink acid yesterday near the Lucknow railway station and assured strict action against the culprits behind the incident.

The 35-year-old woman is believed to be in a critical state and fighting for her life in the ICU at Lucknow's King George Medical College.

The victim was allegedly forced to drink acid by two men who grabbed her on a train to Lucknow yesterday.

CM Yogi Adityanath also declared Rs. 1 lakh compensation for the woman. 

He also ordered the police to arrest the attackers at the earliest.

Yogi was accompanied by Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya and state's Child Development Minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi, who ordered free treatment for the victim. 

UP CM Yogi Adityanath visited the 2008 gangrape and acid attack victim in Lucknow's KGMU Hospital. pic.twitter.com/9Pt5VJrIaF — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) March 24, 2017

The woman was gang-raped in 2008 in Raebareli and acid was thrown on her stomach. 

Three men were arrested, and the case will soon go into trial. The family had been receiving threats regularly, said the woman's husband.

"It is good that the Chief Minister came but I want the men to be arrested," the woman's husband, who dropped her off at the station, said.

The woman works at a cafe that employs acid attack survivors.

Importantly, hours after the CM met the gang-rape victim, the UP Police arrested two men for attacking the woman and forcing her to drink acid.

ADG (Law and Order) Daljeet Chaudhary had earlier confirmed that one of them arrested by the police has been identified as 'Guddu' and the search for the other accused in on.  

FIR registered. 2 accused arrested; Police making all efforts to arrest rest accused.Suitable protection&security provided to victim: UP ADG pic.twitter.com/m2jaXHAIHh — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) March 24, 2017