SC: CULPRITS IN ACID ATTACK CASES THREAT TO SOCIETY

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that perpetrators of acid attacks are a “threat to society” and must be dealt with an “iron hand” as it came across the plight faced by victims whose internal organs suffer perpetual damage on being made to consume acid but who lose out on disability benefits under the law as their “disfigurement” is internal and not external.

- Abraham Thomas

“In the penal code, such ruthless and brutal cases should have stringent conditions more than those in special laws such as UAPA, etc. These people are a threat to society, to the people. The law and the criminal justice system mu