© dnaindia.comUP law student brutally attacked over medicine price dispute, his stomach was split open, two fingers were chopped off
A 22-year-old law student’s stomach was split open and two of his fingers were chopped off in a shocking attack in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur. Police said on Sunday that Abhijeet Singh Chandel, a first-year LLB student, was attacked with a cleaver during a full-blown dispute over the price of a medicine.
Police said three people have been arrested on charges of attempt to murder. (ANI/Representative)
Chandel, a student of Kanpur University and a resident of Keshavpuram, had gone to a pharmacy near his residence, where he had an argument with the shop owner, Amar Singh Chauhan, over the price of a medicine, police said.
Chauhan, his brother Vijay Singh, and two of their associates, Prince Srivastava and Nikhil Tiwari, then violently attacked Chandel, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Kalyanpur) Ranjeet Kumar said, as per news agency PTI.