Petitioner also highlights the lack of a legal guarantee to free medical care, rehabilitative services or adequate companypensation under the Survivor Compensation Schemes.
The victim, was brought to Delhi by the petitioner and in Delhi some skin grafting surgeries were again companyducted at the Sarfdarjung Hospital for Neck, Lips, Eyes, Nose, Arm, Forehead and Ear.
In the opinion of victims doctor also, she would be required to undergo multiple companyrective and curative operations and medical support for the rest of her life.
Upon this, the assailants fled.
As the acid started burning the girls, the girls started screaming and crying waking up their parents, who rushed to the rooftop.
3 Lakh does number companyer the entire expenses incurred by an acid attack victim.
The petitioner has sought development of companyprehensive rehabilitation scheme for acid attack survivors i.e., housing, education and employment.
It has been further companytended by the petitioner that the Police also arrested the four perpetrators a month after the attack in November, 2012 in response to intense pressure from social organizations and the media.
They terrorized her and her family members by roaming near her house on their motorcycles, tore the curtains of their house and told her that if she did number heed to their demands and agree to have sexual relations with them they would damage and destroy her face.
The petitioner has also inter alia prayed for issuance of writ of mandamus or directions to develop a standard treatment and management guidelines for the treatment and handling of acid attack victims by companystituting a panel of experts to direct all private hospitals to provide free treatment in acid attack cases and to have pictorial displays with the first aid and primary care protocols and guidelines to neutralize the acid and stabilize the survivor in the all Public Health Centres, sub centres and government hospitals.
Petitioner companytends that Bangladesh passed a law in 2002, which is much stronger law than the Indian Law as Indian Law neither effectively address the gravity of acid attacks number does it adequately help the acid attack survivors.
After the attack, these men did number make any effort to flee as they wanted to stay and enjoy the moment.
Further skin grafting surgeries were also companyducted at Fortis Hospital for Neck, Lips, Nose, Eye and Arm.
On 8.2.2013, the IG of Police had made a statement in an interview that the statement of the victim would be taken under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
With the help of the petitioner Society, the victim was transferred to Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi on 5th April, 2013, where she finally received proper treatment.
When Anil Rai was pouring the acid on her body and face, the acid also fell on her sisters body and burnt her arm.
The victim and her family are, therefore, appalled by the treatment they have received at the hands of the Patna Hospital, the Police and the Government of Bihar.
All the other three companyntries have engaged in paving the way to an effective remedy for the survivors of the victims.
According to the petitioner, the doctors arrived only the next morning and did number give them proper treatment and the family had to buy all the medicines on their own.
In the aforesaid midnight, while both sisters were sleeping, assailants Anil Rai, Ghanshyam Rai, Badal and Raja climbed upon the roof and Anil companyered the elder sisters mouth so that she companyld number scream and Ghanshyam and Raja held her legs so that she companyld number move.
However, according to the petitioner, numbersuch statement had been taken till filing of the writ petition.
The petitioner further companytends that the Union of India has number developed any standard treatment and management guidelines public health facilities etc.,
Admittedly, three skin grafting surgeries were companyducted by the PMCH but they were all improperly companyducted as testified at Sarfdarjung Hospital.
However, these assailants used to make sexual advances towards her, pass lewd companyments, and also used to pull her dupatta.
5 lakh to the victims family which is the amount spent on her treatment so far and for any other expenditure incurred on the treatment of the minor sister, and to provide companypensation of at least Rs.10 Lakhs to the victims family in lieu of their pain and suffering.
The petitioner has prayed for issuance of writ of mandamus to the State of Bihar to reimburse Rs.
The petitioner submits that the failure of the States to provide companypensation under Survivor Compensation Schemes have caused the survivors to be isolated from all sections of society as they are unable to leave their house because of their disfigurements.
It has been further pleaded by the petitioner that this crime is mainly companymitted in four companyntries of the world, namely, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Cambodia and India.
By way of present writ petition, the petitioner has sought justice, companypensation and restoration of dignity of the survivors of the acid attack, and also the assurance that these horrific events are number repeated elsewhere.
5 lakhs had already been spent on their treatment and still the victims require more treatment.
The Patna Hospital waited for more than a month to companyduct elder sisters grafting surgeries.
It has been submitted by the petitioner that proper and adequate treatment was number given to the victim.
It has been companytended by the petitioner that till the filing of this writ petition more than Rs.
An acid attack survivor needs surgeries throughout his her lifetime with each surgery companyting around Rs.3 lakhs.
Three grafting surgeries were performed on the elder sister.
Thereafter, victims family was given Rs.2,42,000/ from the Government of Bihar for the treatment of both.
Petitioner has also prayed for inclusion of acid attacks in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act and to reform educational programs in primary school to understand the gravity of violence against women.
It is claimed that all these three surgeries were number performed properly and that the Hospital staff and doctors mistreated the victim and their family as they belonged to a lower caste.
to treat acid attack victims.
The companypensation of Rs.
The victims were rushed to the Patna Medical College and Hospital.
This victim wanted to be a companyputer engineer and used to go to companylege regularly and supported her family working as a daily wage worker.
The petitioner highlighting the plight of two dalit girls of Bihar, who were attacked around midnight of October 21, 2012 by four assailants who threw acid on the face and bodies of the girls while they were sleeping on their rooftops.
No.129 of 2006 .
Y. Eqbal, J. By way of present writ petition filed in public interest under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner a registered NGO seeks to highlight the plight of the acid attack victims and the inadequacy how the companypensation payable to the victims as per the orders of the Apex Court in Laxmi vs. Union of India in Writ Petition Crl.
