The injured have been identified as Seetharam (62) and his two sons Amruthesh (35) and Rajkumar (28), The incident occurred when they were returning home to Sullia late on Saturday.
The miscreants who came in an auto stopped the trio on the pretext of making some inquiries, threw acid and fled. Amruthesh, fruit trader, who sustained severe injuries has been admitted to the ICU.
While Rajkumar, sustained burn injuries to his hand, Seetharam sustained similar injuries said to be superficial to his right hand and chest.
Amrutesh on the other hand who sustained injuries to his eyes, neck, face and chest was shifted to a private hospital in the city for treatment. Rajkumar and Seetharam are undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Puttur itself, Puttur, assistant superintendent of police MN Anucheth said.
Noting that police have positive leads on the identity of the miscreants, Anucheth said Amrutesh had received a call from an unknown number on his cell making inquiries if they would clean up some gold jewellery for a marriage. The miscreants had called up the number on the name display board outside the jewellery shop at Puttur; ASP said adding that the miscreants had come to the shop a little after they had closed it for the day.
Seetharam and Rajkumar have told police that they had no idea about why they were attacked, ASP said adding that reasons and motive for this attack would become clear once the attackers were nabbed. A case under section 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 307 (attempt to murder) read with 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) has been registered in Puttur rural PS, ASP added.
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