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Alleged acid attacker nabbed

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s Office, Ranipokhari, on Friday makes public 20-year-old Jiban BK (right) on the charge of carrying out acid attack on three schoolgirls at Basantapur on February 22. Two seriously injured girls Sangita Magar and Sima Basnet are undergoing treatment at Kathmandu hospitals. (Bijay Rai)



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