Abstract

Under the law, a woman means a female human being of any age. Our ordinary conception of a woman is a full grown female. In an old case decided by Bombay High court in 1912, it was held that the six year old girl is a women and later on in 1967, the Supreme Court in State of Punjab vs. Major Singh held that essence of a women’s modesty is her sex. Nevertheless from her birth, she possessed the modesty which is the attribute of her sex. In Madhu Kishwar vs. State of Bihar the Supreme Court of India opined that half of the Indian populations are women. Women have always been discriminated against and have suffered and are suffering discrimination silence. Self-sacrifice and Self-denial are their nobility and fortitude and yet they have been subjected to all inequities, indignities, and discrimination. Although women cover almost half of the population of the country yet they are the most disadvantaged group in our democratic set-up. They are not very much politically, socially and economically sound. A Latin maxim justitia non-novits patrem nec matrem, solam veritatem spectat justitia (justice knows neither father nor mother, but regards truth alone). In the present scenario the offences of sexual harassment and acid attacks on women’s are the most common and a heinous offence against them and it is treated as a social stigma too for them. So by this way the women’s who are the victims of such offences faced the two sided trauma i.e. physical as well as social too. So there is the need of proper implementation of laws and their rehabilitation and protection. This paper not only explains the legal provisions but also explains the various physical, sociological and psychological consequences which are generally faced by the victims of acid attack which makes their life worst. Efforts have been made to highlight the role of apex judiciary of India to deliver the real justice of acid attack victims. In the end of the paper the author had tried to give certain suggestions that might prove helpful in curtailing the perils of such attack.

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