BHUBANESWAR: Hope of justice for Padmini Roul, an acid attack victim, - has finally come alive as the state police has managed to arrest two persons including the prime accused Santosh Bedanta in connection with 2009 ghastly act.
Santosh, an Army jawan posted at Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested by a special team of Odisha police from Kolkata on Sunday. Apart from Santosh, the police has also arrested his associate Biswajit Dalsinghray from Nayagarh.
Biswajit had assisted Santosh in execution of the acid attack on Pramodini at Tirtol over a suspected one-sided love affair, some eight years back.
Sources said, Pramodini was 16 when the accused, Santosh, threw acid on her while she was returning to her uncle’s house on April 18, 2009.
Following the incident, Pramodini underwent treatment and series of surgeries at SCB Medical College and Hospital for long. But she lost her eyesight in the acid attack.
