Unidentified assailants threw chilly powder at a BJP legislator in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district
Lucknow:
Unidentified assailants threw chilly powder at a Bhartiya Janata Party or the BJP legislator in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district on Monday, police said.
Kapil Dev Agarwal was meeting with local people in his residence when three young men came to him under pretext of sorting out some problem and threw the chilly powder at him and fled.
The assailants escaped on a bike.
The legislator has been admitted to a private hospital.
"We have done primary first aid and dressed his eyes but we will have to go in for advanced tests soon as there might be damage to the cornea or the eyes in general" a doctor said.
Kapil Dev Agarwal was meeting with local people in his residence when three young men came to him under pretext of sorting out some problem and threw the chilly powder at him and fled.
The assailants escaped on a bike.
The legislator has been admitted to a private hospital.
"We have done primary first aid and dressed his eyes but we will have to go in for advanced tests soon as there might be damage to the cornea or the eyes in general" a doctor said.
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