Delhi Teen Gets Attacked By Classmate Amid Fight Over Lunch Box, Gets 17 Stitches On Her Face

A 14-year-old girl received 17 stitches on her face after she was allegedly attacked by her classmate with a blade in New Delhi’s Gulabi Bagh area.

The incident, came to light on Wednesday, when the Delhi Police took suo moto cognizance of a purported video — showing the girl with injuries on her face — that started doing the rounds on social media and launched an investigation.

The teen’s family is also demanding strict action against the students involved in the incident.

Earlier, a senior police officer had said, “Initially, we got to know that a scuffle broke out between a few girls of a government school outside is premises and one of them hit another girl with some sharp-edged thing.”

However, in her statement, the victim said that she and her classmates were having lunch when some girls snatched one of their friends’ tiffin box and fled. “My friend asked them to return it, but they started abusing us,” she said.

The victim then stepped in to pacify the tense situation, but a verbal tiff broke out between them, leading to the classmate attacking her with a blade.

The 14-year-old’s family has alleged that no one came forward to help their daughter after the incident. “My daughter received 17 stitches on her face. Her health condition is still serious. After the attack, no one even helped her to take her to hospital,” the girl’s mother said.

The victim is a Class 9 student and her elder sister said, “When a fight broke out between her friends, she was trying to pacify everyone. But she was attacked. Police must take strict action against them.”

Police officials noted that since all the persons seen in the video are juveniles, therefore actions have been taken against them under the Juveniles Justice Act.

Earlier this year, a Class 8 student received severe injuries after a fellow student allegedly attacked him with a sharp object inside the classroom of a school in Maharashtra’s Sangli district.

Preliminary probe had revealed that the incident was the fallout of a previous dispute between the two classmates. The accused boy had carried a sharp object, presumably a small knife, in his school bag.

The victim received severe injuries on his necks and hands, officials had said.

(With PTI inputs)

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