acid attack

‘Investigation officer not serious from day one’: Delhi court acquits 3 men in 2009 acid attack case, flags 'shoddy probe'

December 29, 2025 8:02 pm

Pulling up the police, a Delhi court said other than the strong suspicion raised by the woman, there is no incriminating evidence against the accused

‘Don’t want sympathy, only justice’: Acid attack survivor as court acquits three in 2009 case

December 25, 2025 2:58 am

“This is a mockery of the justice system. My statements were completely ignored. I was so hopeful…I waited for 16 years,” she said. She spent all these years running from courtrooms to hospital wards.

Acid attack case: Delhi court says 'brutal, diabolical' while awarding life term to two men who forced acid down minor's throat

December 12, 2025 5:18 pm

Delhi Acid attack case: The court said that an acid attack victim, who died 18 months after the attack, and his family suffered a deep trauma on a day-to-day basis.

After the violence: Why justice often fails acid-attack survivors in India

November 15, 2025 10:14 pm

For acid attack survivors to get government help, the law must therefore take into account the impact of facial and functional disfigurement, rather than relying solely on percentage-based criteria.

'Acid Attack' case: DU student’s brother, uncle held for false claims

October 30, 2025 4:11 am

According to a senior police officer, the girl’s uncle conspired with her father to orchestrate the acid attack and falsely implicate three other men. The student’s younger brother had allegedly dropped her near the college, after which she met her father, the officer added.

'Stalker’ throws acid on 19-year-old DU student : ‘Wanted to save my face, it fell on hands'

October 27, 2025 2:25 am

Three men arrived on a bike, the police said, adding that one of them was an acquaintance of the woman

'Want him to suffer the same pain': Sambhal teacher attacked with acid; accused held after shootout

September 26, 2025 11:54 pm

According to police, the accused had been harassing the teacher for months, sending her obscene messages and threatening her. Police have arrested his 'girlfriend', who allegedly instigated the attack, as well

'I knew him for years... he was a close friend. Didn’t know this would happen': Decade after attack, her pain endures

September 15, 2025 8:37 am

In the winter of 2014, a 30-year-old doctor left her home in West Delhi to head to work — not knowing her life was going to be permanently altered

Teen held in Varanasi for 'throwing acid' on woman after 'she stopped taking his calls'

August 11, 2025 4:12 am

The woman moved to Varanasi 8 months ago; the accused claims she was in a relationship with him

3 booked after woman injured in acid attack in Tripura's Sepahijala

June 17, 2025 2:35 pm

Sepahijala police said the woman sustained burns on her hand and legs, and was rushed to a health centre from where she was shifted to Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital in Agartala.

Vivek Oberoi Blesses Acid Attack Survivor Lalitha Bansi On Her Wedding Day

June 22, 2020 7:02 pm