Abbottabad: A 17-year-old girl of Abbottabad was subjected to severe torture by suspects who also poured acid down her throat allegedly over refusal to marriage proposal on Wednesday.

The incident took place in the Bakot police precincts, where the accused subjected the girl Rukhsar to severe torture and left her unconscious near a spring of water after pouring acid down her throat to kill her. According to the brother of the girl, she remained unconscious for hours, lying near the water spring, before being rushed to Muzaffarabad Hospital in a critical condition.

He said that his sister was still unconscious, for the inner parts of her body were burnt due to the acid which was forcibly poured down her throat. He also lamented that he got a case registered at Bakot police station, but the accused were yet to be arrested by the police.