Two attacked with acid in Punjab

CHANDIGARH - Two trainers working for a private business networking company were attacked with acid by unidentified people in Punjab’s Sangrur district Monday, police said.

Police officials in Sangrur’s Malerkotla town, 130 km from here, said that both the trainers, Abdul Gaffar and Mohammad Arif, were admitted to local government hospital after the attack.

“We have recorded their statements and have registered a case against three people, including the owner of a private business networking company,” an area police official said.

The trainers told police that they were earlier working for Mayur Business Networking company and quit it recently.

According to police, the two were teaching and training the company’s marketing team.

The trainers alleged that they had been receiving death threats from people claiming to be from the company for which they worked earlier.

“We were threatened as the earlier company suspected that we will share business information with the new company that we joined,” Gaffar said.

Police officials said that the attack could have been carried out by contract killers from neighbouring Haryana on the instruction of the owner of the company where the trainers worked earlier.