Acid Attacks

The Delhi government is working on schemes to provide lifelong financial assistance to acid attack survivors for medical procedures, and subsidised transport facilities to school students with benchmark disabilities, officials said on Thursday. The government has also prepared a cabinet note on an assistance scheme for persons with benchmark disabilities who have high support needs, to engage care givers, they said. A person is said to have a benchmark disability if the disability level is 40 per cent or higher. In a recent meeting chaired by Social Welfare Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, officers of the department informed him that a draft scheme of transport subsidy for Delhi school students with benchmark disabilities is under final stages of development, the officials said. It will be soon placed before the minister for his approval, they said. During the meeting, Bharadwaj pointed out that under the current welfare scheme, acid attack survivors are eligible for monthly disability

Bengaluru witnessed highest number of acid attacks against women in the country in 2022, with the city police registering six cases, the latest report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said. According to the data, among the 19 metropolitan cities listed in the NCRB data, Bengaluru topped the overall list with eight women falling victims to acid attack last year. At the second position was Delhi which saw seven women falling prey to acid attacks in 2022 followed by Ahmedabad at third position with registration of five such cases, the data showed. An analysis of the NCRB data showed that the national capital (Delhi) reported 7 cases of attempted attacks followed by Bengaluru which registered 3 such cases last year. Meanwhile, meteropolitan cities like Hyderabad and Ahmedabad registered two such cases of attempted attacks in 2022. One of the prominent cases of acid attack which shook Bengaluru last year was that of a 24-year-old M.Com graduate who was attacked on Ap

NCP member Fauzia Khan on Tuesday voiced concern over sale of dangerous chemicals on popular e-commerce platforms, while referring to the recent acid attack on a teenage girl in the national capital. On Decemer 14, a 17-year-old girl was attacked with acid in west Delhi while on way to her school resulting in serious injuries. Three men, including her neighbour, have been arrested in the case. Raising the issue of acid attacks during the Zero Hour in Rajya Sabha, Khan said majority of the reported cases of acid attacks are against young women and most of them who turn down a proposal for marriage, or refuse to enter into a relationship or withdraw from a relationship. "Despite the existence of laws the crime of acid attacks continued unabated. The reason is that acids can be procured easily as there is laxness on part of implementation of regulations. It is the implementation that is important. There is high prevalence of illegal sale of acid," she said. She further said the accuse

Several states/UTs have already issued guidelines to regulate the sale of acids

Maneka Gandhi said she desires a "death penalty for acid attackers"