Attorney-at-law Gomattie Singh is in hospital after a lone assailant threw acid in her face as she sat in her vehicle outside the Guyoil gas station on Sheriff Street yesterday afternoon.
Singh, a resident of Prashad Nagar, is in a city hospital nursing serious burns to her face.
The attacker arrived in a taxi and fled in the same manner seconds after dousing Singh who is said to be in her fifties. The assailant made no effort to conceal his face or the vehicle’s number plate, this newspaper understands.
This bizarre incident has sent shock waves throughout the legal fraternity. Several of her colleagues last evening called for justice and urged the police to act swiftly to catch the perpetrators.
Reports reaching Stabroek News are that the incident occurred as the attorney was speaking to someone standing outside her RAV 4 vehicle just after 4 pm.
An eyewitness recounted to this newspaper that Singh, her husband and grandson were in the vehicle which was parked outside the gas station. Singh had her window down and was speaking at the time when a light blue car bearing an HB number plate stopped a short distance away.
The eyewitness recalled that a young man got out of the vehicle and started heading towards her. He had a black bag in his hand and as he neared Singh, the man pulled out a bottle with an orange liquid and threw it into the woman’s face.
The eyewitness told Stabroek News that following the incident, the woman was placed in another vehicle and rushed to the hospital.
The seat that Singh was sitting in was burnt badly and her glasses were lying there too, the witness said.
The information this newspaper received is that the man calmly returned to the car that he arrived in and it sped off. Singh’s husband Krishna and grandson were not injured.
Contacted last evening Chairman of the AFC, Khemraj Ramjattan expressed deep shock at the attack. Ramjattan said that from all accounts the attacker threw the corrosive substance straight into her face. Singh operated out of Ramjattan’s chambers and it was from there that she went on to complete her law studies.
