A woman has died after her boyfriend allegedly threw acid on her and tried to set her ablaze in Maharashtra's Beed district

Aurangabad: A woman has died after her boyfriend allegedly threw acid on her and tried to set her ablaze in Maharashtra's Beed district, a police official said.

A police official said that the accused, identified as Avinash Rajure (25), has been nabbed in Nanded.

Acid attack

The incident took place on Saturday, the police official said, adding that the reason behind the attack was not yet known.

The woman, originally hailing from Shelgaon in Nanded district, was travelling from Pune to her native place along with the accused, he said.

They took a halt at a lonely spot at Yalamb Ghat in Beed where the accused allegedly attacked the woman with acid and later tried set her on fire by dousing her in petrol, another official from Neknur police station in Beed said.

The accused then fled from the spot, he said. The woman was later taken to a hospital where she died, the official said.

Crime

"The incident took place around 3 am on Saturday and the police came to know about it in the afternoon. We took her to a hospital around 2 pm," the official said.

We took a statement of the woman on Saturday, but she didn't tell anything about why she was attacked. She later died. A police team is going to the hospital to get further information," the official said.

A case has been registered Indian Penal Code Sections section 326A (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by use of acid ,etc) and 307 (attempt to murder), the official said.