A shocking case has emerged from Uttar Pradesh's Hapur where a woman accidently consumed acid after a shopkeeper handed her an apparently sealed water bottle late last week.
The woman is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Meerut where she is said to be in a critical condition. The incident took place at a jewelry shop in Hapur and was caught on CCTV installed there. The visuals of the woman mistakenly consuming acid has been widely shared on social media platforms.
The alleged incident took place when the woman had gone for jewelry shopping with her mother in Arjun Nagar area where she asked the shopkeeper for water. The shopkeeper sent a staff member to fetch a water bottle from a confectionary nearby, Live Hindustan reported. The shopkeeper reportedly took out the water bottle from the fridge and gave it to the jewelry staff worker.
The CCTV footage from inside the jewelry shop shows the woman opening the water bottle and pouring its contents into her mouth, assuming it is water, while her mother stood next to her.
{{/usCountry}}The CCTV footage from inside the jewelry shop shows the woman opening the water bottle and pouring its contents into her mouth, assuming it is water, while her mother stood next to her.
{{/usCountry}}However, moments later she is seen writhing in pain and rushing out of the shop as the acid might have started damaging her mouth, throat and other parts of the digestive system.
HT could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.
As the woman's condition deteriorated, people around the shop gathered and informed her family, who then took her to a nearby hospital. She was later referred to Meerut for advanced treatment.
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The police are investigating the case and a preliminary probe has revealed that the bottle of acid might have been mistakenly been brought in place of water. How and where did the bottle of acid end up among water bottles is being probed, though the shop-owner has said that the bottle was sealed and was received among the batch of water bottles.
The confectionary owner has been detained by the police and is being questioned in the case.