Man hospitalised after shopkeeper mistakenly sells him acid instead of mineral water in J&K's Kulgam

The shopkeeper has been arrested and an FIR has been registered against him.

A Tehsildar in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district was hospitalised on Wednesday after a shopkeeper mistakenly sold him a bottle of battery acid instead of water. Official sources told India Today that Tehsildar D H Pora, Niyaz Ahmad Bhat was coming back after destroying poppy cultivation and had asked for a bottle of water to a nearby general store at around 11:00 am today. “The shopkeeper mistakenly sold him a bottle containing a liquid similar to water, which was battery acid packed in a waste mineral water bottle. The tehsildar drank it, and he felt uneasy, following which he was hospitalised,” said an official.