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Justice? What Justice?

Tackling Acid Violence and Ensuring Justice to Survivors   What is Acid Attack? Acid attack is a type of heinous violence or crime where acid is thrown with an intention to maim, disfigure, blind or to kill the victim. If a woman spurns sexual advances or rejects a proposal of marriage, this attack acts like revenge by the Perpetrators. So, it became a bitter aspect of many women’s life all over the globe.      These attacks can be attributed to various contributing factors such as social weakness of women in this male dominating society, lack of support, neglection by the lawmakers in this particular field. These occur at higher rates in the locations where factories use acid in their manufacturing process. Together with government, businesses and other industrial users of acid can play an important role in curbing the criminal use of acids.   Acid Attack in the Back Drop of India According to a survey by activists and researchers says that India is the fourth mos