Acid Attacks : How Indian Laws Have Evolved To Deal With This Crime?
4 years, 11 months ago

Acid Attacks : How Indian Laws Have Evolved To Deal With This Crime?

Live Law  

Acid attack is a brutal act of throwing acid or equally abrasive substance, which is a violent form of assault on a person with an intention to torture or disfigure or even to kill. Earlier, in Laxmi v. Union of India & Ors., a PIL filed by Laxmi Agarwal, acid-attack survivor, where she pleaded to frame the regulations relating to sale and purchase of acid inorder to curb attacks in India, to make new law or amend the existing laws like IPC, Indian Evidence Act, CrPC to include acid attack as a separate crime and to rehabilitate and compensate the acid attack victims, the apex court directed for: Enactment of appropriate provision for effective regulation of sale of acid in the States/Union Territories. Also, Section 357A which was inserted in the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 vide the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 2008, which provides for compensation to victims of crime also included victims of sexual crimes including rape, acid attacks, crime against children, and human trafficking In Piyali Dutta v. The State of West Bengal & Ors., the Calcutta High Court ruled that the victims of acid attacks prior to December 2009, i.e., the insertion of section 357A of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 would be entitled to compensation. It was observed by the apex court in the case Suresh Chandra v. The State of West Bengal & Ors., where the appeal was filed by the brother of the deceased acid attack victim challenging an order passed by the Calcutta High Court, where the accused were acquitted of the charge under section 302 IPC. In State of Uttarakhand v. Ajam, where the offender poured acid on the victim while she was on her way back from tuition and shouted that if the victim did not belong to him, he would ruin her life, the Uttarakhand High Court issued several directions for rehabilitation of acid attack victims which includes monthly payments to the victims who have received third/fourth degree burn injuries in addition to the ex-gratia lump-sum payment and reservation in public employment in the category of physically challenged persons.

Crime India Delhi Death Penalty Compensation Court Bangladesh Victims Victim Attack Uttarakhand Case Colombia State Ipc High Attacks Acid This Case 15 Days Crpc Life Imprisonment Nct Grievous Hurt  indian  v  victims  state  attacks  crime  compensation  deal  case  evolved  court  laws  acid  attack  high  victim

History of this topic

Keeping up with UP | Acid attacks continue as laws fail to stop them, focus shifts to other crimes
4 months ago

Keeping up with UP | Acid attacks continue as laws fail to stop them, focus shifts to other crimes

Hindustan Times  

“I find your face very beautiful, now more beautiful,” the then seven-year-old Pihu whispered softly, hugging her mother Laxmi, an acid attack survivor, whose grit and determination had made global headlines in the mid-2000s. Laxmi and Pihu, along with other acid attack survivors, visited the Hindustan Times office in Lucknow after they had staged a fashion show, ‘I am Beautiful’, …

Amit Shah tables Bills for major changes to British-era criminal justice system
1 year, 4 months ago

Amit Shah tables Bills for major changes to British-era criminal justice system

Hindustan Times  

Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday tabled bills to replace the British-era Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Indian Evidence Act and to provide for capital punishment for mob lynching, sexual assaults on minors, 20-year imprisonment for gang rape besides repeal of sedition offence. Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrives at Parliament House complex during …

[Section 326A IPC] 'Acid' Includes All Substances Having Burning Nature, Not Merely Those Classically Termed as Acids: Delhi High Court
2 years, 2 months ago

[Section 326A IPC] 'Acid' Includes All Substances Having Burning Nature, Not Merely Those Classically Termed as Acids: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has said that the word 'acid' in Section 326A of the Indian Penal Code is not merely restricted to the substances which are classically or scientifically termed as acids but also includes all those substances which have an acidic, corrosive or burning nature and are capable of causing disfigurement, or temporary or permanent disability.Section 326A of …

Prosecution For Offence Of "Waging War Against India" Will Not Stand Without Sanction U/S 196 CRPC: Allahabad Quashes Life Term Of Pak Citizen
5 years, 4 months ago

Prosecution For Offence Of "Waging War Against India" Will Not Stand Without Sanction U/S 196 CRPC: Allahabad Quashes Life Term Of Pak Citizen

Live Law  

The Allahabad High Court has held that prior government sanction under Section 196 of CrPC is mandatory to take cognizance of offences like Section 121-123 IPC and it thereby set aside the order of conviction and sentence of life imprisonment imposed on a Pakistani Jais-E-Mohommad Terrorist group member and another Indian citizen, for want of such sanction. Appellant's Contentions The …

The 'Acid' Undoubtedly A 'Corrosive' Substance Within The Meaning Of S.326 IPC: SC [Read Judgment]
5 years, 7 months ago

The 'Acid' Undoubtedly A 'Corrosive' Substance Within The Meaning Of S.326 IPC: SC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

"It needs hardly any emphasis that the act of causing grievous hurt by use of acid, by its very nature, is a gruesome and horrendous one, which, apart from causing severe bodily pain, leaves the scars and untold permanent miseries for the victim," noted Supreme Court while passing judgment in Omanakuttan v. The State of Kerala. With acid attack cases …

Discover Related