Cyber-security researcher from MP narrowly escapes acid attack in Rome

Cyber-security researcher from MP narrowly escapes acid attack in Rome, tweets to foreign minister S Jaishankar for help "I've nothing left with me, I had flight at 4.30 from Rome, but lost my passport and all documents, they're not allowing. I don't know what to do. I complained at the Airport police station about the same, please help me get back to India," Harshit said in another tweet. Hello Sir/Madam, I'm student and I was in Paris, and Rome for presenting my research paper in conference, and when I was returning back at Rome Metro, some people tried to throw acid on me, and snitched all my bag, passport, money.@SushmaSwaraj @DrSJaishankar @IndianDiplomacy pic.twitter.com/TtIOulCgbo - Harshit Agrawal (@Harshitnic) June 26, 2019 I have nothing left with me, I had my flight today at 4:30 from Rome but as I lost my passport and all documents, they're not allowing, I don't know what to do, I complaint at Airport Police station about the same, please help me get back to India.@narendramodi @PrakashJavdekar - Harshit Agrawal (@Harshitnic) June 26, 2019 According to Harshit's father Sanjay Agrawal, who is based in Ranapur town in Jhabua district of MP, "Harshit has been adjudged as an excellent cyber-security researcher at MIT Pune. He had recently presented research papers in cyber-security at series of conferences in the US, the Netherlands, Paris and finally at Rome." "After checking out of the hotel in the Italian capital, Harshit was about to board a metro train from one of the stations to Airport for catching a flight to Paris from where he would have taken a flight to India via Dubai. But just before he could board the train to Rome Airport, a group of men tried to throw acid on him, but he had a narrow escape. However, the unidentified man snatched from him the bag, money and documents, leaving with him with nothing at all," Harshit's father told The New Indian Express. The young researcher's father, however, added that the Indian Embassy in Rome is helping Harshit and is making arrangements for necessary documents that would enable him to board a flight to India sans a valid passport. "The Indian Embassy staff has contacted with us in India and assured full cooperation and care for Harshit, possibly as directed to them by our government. We hope Harshit will be back in India soon," said Sanjay Agrawal, a Ranapur (Jhabua)-based journalist. function catchException() {try{ twitterJSDidLoad(); }catch(e){}} function getAndroidVersion(ua) {ua = (ua || navigator.userAgent).toLowerCase(); var match = ua.match(/android\\s([0-9\\.]*)/);return match ? match[1] : false;}; var versions='4.2.2'; var versionArray=versions.split(',');var currentAndroidVersion=getAndroidVersion();if(versionArray.indexOf(currentAndroidVersion)!=-1){var blocks = document.getElementsByTagName('blockquote'); for(var i = 0; i < blocks.length; i++){blocks[i].innerHTML = '';}}DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://www.wpgmaps.com/forums/users/gibranjeenr/