Tehran, May 14 (ANI): An Iranian court has given out 'an eye for an eye' judgement, allowing a 32 year-old woman to inject acid to blind the person who had done almost the same act after she turned down his marriage proposal in 2004.
The woman, Ameneh Bahrami, was left blind and disfigured after Majid Movahedi threw sulphuric acid in her eyes at a bus-stand after he had begged her in vain to marry him.
She later underwent 19 operations following the attack, and the court awarded her 19,000 pounds as compensation besides sending Majid to jail, but Ameneh turned down the compensation offer saying she wanted revenge.
She wanted her attacker to suffer the same anguish that she had undergone for over six years.
"His mother phoned my parents. She asked for mercy. She said that Majid would always work for me if he could keep his eyes. But now it's too late," the Daily Mail quoted her, as saying yesterday.
Ameneh said she also received death threats because of her determination to exact revenge, adding: "The police have told me not to go out on the street alone. My parents are scared. They think the judges are wrong."
Although arrangements have been made for her to inject twenty drops of acid in each of her attacker's eyes as he lies in a Tehran hospital under an aesthetic at midday today, the court has given her an option to change her mind.
Ameneh, however, claimed till yesterday to stick to her decision.
"I'm very happy. After six years I'm getting justice. But we are both losers because we have both suffered greatly," she added. (ANI)
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