Acid attacks are becoming more and more common. Women are moving out of their homes in pursuit of education and employment. And still mindsets of the menfolks are backward and they want to inflict harm on the independent women who they see as a threat to their job opportunities. Staking is present every where in India. Men mask themselves and while riding on a motor-cycle throw acid on the faces of women. This leads to permanent damage to the face and vital organs like eyes, nose, throat etc. Legal battles to resolve such acid attacks takes years and years. And fine of any amount as compensation will not make the victims recover from the psychological trauma. After nearly three weeks months after being told to ban selling of acids, (concentrated hydro-chloric acid) no efforts were made in this direction. Supreme Court questioned the state governments why they have not stopped the selling of acid by common grocers. Only diluted acid should be available for non industrial use; and the buyers must fill up a form so that they can be identified. All these measures cannot stop infliction of trauma on female population as mindsets cannot be changed by a simple "ban" Policing and severe punishment for crimes against women can help to some extent.
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