HIV-infected man pierces kids with blood-soaked needle

In a bizarre incident, a 26-year-old AIDS patient reportedly pricked a needle soaked with his infected blood into the bodies of two children in Gokak in Karnataka’s Belgaum district.

Police said the accused Parusharam Naik had a dispute with his co-worker Lingappa Naik, who resided in the same neighbourhood. Recently, Parashuram entered Lingappa’s house when no elders were present, took out a sewing needle and pricked himself before stabbing Lingappa’s four-year-old son Shivanand and six-year-old daughter Lakshmi with it.

When Lingappa returned home and learned about the matter, he immediately rushed his children to the Government District Hospital for necessary medical examination.

Meanwhile, the accused Parusharam is reported to be absconding after he was beaten up by Lingappa and others in the locality.

According to a complaint lodged by Lingappa, Parashuram was an AIDS patients and he apprehended that his children could contract the dreaded HIV disease because of his “cruel act”.

Doctors attending on Lingappa’s children said the children would be kept under observation as the time taken to know whether the children had been infected with HIV would range between six weeks to six months.

However, doctors said the needle used by the accused was a sewing needle, which is not the same as the hollow needle used for injecting medicine. “We have to see whether pricking the body with such a needle could have transferred sufficient quantity of the HIV tissues into the body to cause AIDS”, said a doctor at Belgaum district hospital.