Centre May Introduce Law to Protect Women Forced to Consume Acid: Solicitor General Tells SC

The Solicitor General assured the Supreme Court that the Centre will consider legislative changes to protect women who are forced to drink acid, bringing them within the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act. 

The Court observed that such offenders are “worse than animals” and highlighted that internal injuries from forced acid ingestion, though severe and lifelong, currently go unrecognised.

It noted that internal injuries from forced acid ingestion are often lifelong but not legally recognised as acid attacks.

The Centre has been directed to frame an appropriate policy within six weeks.

[Shaheen Malik v. Union of India]