Lucknow: A gangrape survivor was attacked with acid for the fourth time in Lucknow, capital of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

The incident occurred July 1 evening as the 35-year-old woman was coming out of her hostel. She has been admitted to a hospital after the latest attack, ndtv.com reported.

Acid was thrown at the woman sometime between 8 pm and 9 pm when she came to fill water from a hand-pump in Aliganj area. The attack took place despite a round-the-clock police presence for her security and an armed guard inside the hostel.

The woman is undergoing treatment at the trauma center in Lucknow’s King George’s Medical University. “There are injuries to the right side of her face. The woman is in trauma. We will take strict action,” Abhay Kumar Prasad, Additional Director General of Police, Lucknow, told reporters.

Police said a formal complaint has not been registered as the family is yet to give a complaint. UP Women Welfare Minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi said, “We have given them a lot of protection, there is a guard, a vehicle, have connected them with employment. The investigation is on, let’s see what comes out.”

The woman works at a Lucknow cafe managed by acid attack survivors.

In March this year, two men attacked her and poured acid down her throat on a train while she was returning to Lucknow from her village in Rae Bareli. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had visited her in hospital in March and given her compensation. Hours later, the two accused, named by the woman, were arrested.

Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh slammed the Yogi Adityanath government after the latest attack. “The law and order has completed broken down in UP. Everyday there are instances of harassment, rapes, murders, and exploitation etc,” said Juhi Singh of Samajwadi Party. “In the last 100 days, the BJP government has disappointed the people. They have to think about this goondaraj,” said Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Sudhindra Bhadoria.

The mother of two was allegedly gang-raped in her village in 2008. Two people were arrested and the trial is going on. Three years later, in 2011, she was attacked with acid. In 2013, she had to face a similar ordeal again after she was attacked with acid.

The woman and her family allege the acid attacks are being orchestrated by people known to the gang-rape accused.