Overview
- Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said perpetrators who force victims to consume acid are a threat to society and that Section 307 should apply.
- The Solicitor General told the bench the Centre will consider amendments and a policy to cover ingestion victims under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act within six weeks.
- The Court sought pendency data from all High Courts, issued notices to every state and Union Territory, and recorded a compliance update from the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court.
- Judges pressed for faster trials, calling the 16-year delay in petitioner Shaheen Malik’s case a mockery of the system and asking that the trial conclude by December 31.
- The bench urged harsher punishment, tighter bail, and meaningful compensation beyond current caps, as a Delhi court separately imposed life terms on two men for forcing acid down a minor’s throat.