Mumbai acid attack: Maharashtra to hand over case to CBI

The Maharashtra government on Monday decided to hand over the Mumbai acid attack case to the CBI. The decision came after the woman’s family threatened to block the Delhi-Haryana border in protest. Preeti Rathi succumbed to her injuries on Sunday. Her’s family met Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil and demanded a CBI probe into it, which he assured. The family members said they won’t cremate the body until their demands for a CBI probe, a government job and cremation with full state honours weren’t met.  On Monday, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said the compensation of Rs 2 lakh paid by the Maharashtra government to the Delhi acid attack victim was “grossly inadequate” and “insulting”. “The compensation of mere two lakh rupees by Maharashtra Government is grossly inadequate. It is adding insult to the injury,” Sushma Swaraj tweeted. “The acid attack on Preeti Rathi and her death is very painful. Unfortunately, the culprit is still at large,” she said. On 2 May, some unidentified man threw acid on Preeti as she got off from the New Delhi-Mumbai Garib Rath Express at the Bandra Terminus to take up her new job as a nurse in the army hospital in Mumbai. She suffered grievous injuries which included collapse of her right lung, damage to her left lung, oesophagus, windpipe, trachea and other vital organs. Preeti succumbed to her serious injuries on Saturday in a Mumbai private hospital and her body was taken to the national capital by a flight early on Monday, her father Amar Singh Rathi told IANS. With IANS inputs