Two Punjab teachers attacked with acid

CHANDIGARH - Two teachers working for a private business networking company were admitted to a hospital in Punjab’s Malerkotla town Monday following an acid attack on them by unidentified people, police said.

Police officials in Malerkotla, 130 km from here, said that both the teachers, 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 teachers 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.

They 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 who may have been hired by the owner of the company where the teachers worked earlier.