Acid attack on Maha journalist, family

A journalist and his family were victims of an acid attack by local political activists in another assault  on the media in Maharashtra, an official said here on Wednesday. Dinesh S Choudhary, 40, his wife Arsana and teenaged daughter Rashmi were attacked in their house in Tilak Nagar in Purna town in Parbhani district, police said.

Police said the attackers, one of whom is local Congress activist Sayed Ali ‘Don’ and an unidentified man, barged into Choudhary’s house just before midnight, threw acid on them and escaped.