Analysis of Legal Aspects of Acid Attacks in India Kumar Navin Research Scholar, Department of Law, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Haryana Online published on 30 June, 2016. Abstract Acid attacks are becoming a growing phenomenon in India. Though acid attack is a crime which can be committed against any man or woman, it has a specific gender dimension in India. Most of the reported acid attacks have been committed on women, particularly young women for spurning suitors, for rejecting proposals of marriage, for denying dowry etc. The attacker cannot bear the fact that he has been rejected, and seeks to destroy the body of the woman who has dared to stand up to him. Thus, acid throwing is an extremely violent crime by which the perpetrator of the crime seeks to inflict severe physical and mental suffering on his victim. In this article, I will try to find out the reasons and consequences of this heinous crime along with the analysis of its legal aspects. Top Keywords Maim, Disfigure, Acid, Burns, Victim, Deformity, Rehabilitation, Surgeries, Treatment. Top |