Kanpur: A minor argument over the price of medicine at a pharmacy turned into a horrific assault on a 22-year-old law student in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, leaving him critically injured, Hindustan Times reported.

The victim, identified as Abhijeet Singh Chandel, a first-year LLB student, was attacked near a pharmacy in the Kalyanpur area on October 25 after he objected to being overcharged for a medicine. The shop owner and his associates allegedly assaulted him with sharp weapons, the report said. ADVERTISEMENT

The attackers — identified as Amar Singh Chauhan, his brother Vijay Singh, and two others — hit Chandel so brutally that “his abdomen split open and two fingers were chopped off,” Hindustan Times reported. He also suffered deep injuries to the head that required 14 stitches.

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