Overview
- Deputy Superintendent of Police Tomesh Verma was injured near a market in Dantewada after being stabbed while returning from the district court.
- Police say the assailants—a woman and ex-serviceman Ramashankar Sahu—were arrested after a brief chase and booked for attempted murder under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- Investigators cite an old dispute stemming from the woman’s rape complaint in Durg, a case in which Verma was acquitted in September.
- According to police, the woman met Verma and forced him at knifepoint to stop near an automobile showroom, where Sahu arrived and stabbed him in the neck.
- A police jawan at the scene rushed Verma to the Dantewada hospital before he was shifted to Jagdalpur, and his condition is described as out of danger.