New Delhi: The Centre on Friday assured the Supreme Court that the Union Cabinet has approved amendment in the IPC to provide harsher punishment for a person accused of acid attack.
Appearing before a bench headed by RM Lodha, Additional Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran submitted the Cabinet has approved the amended law and will soon place it before Parliament.
The bench then asked the government to place before Parliament in the winter session so that rule can be enforced for harsher punishment.
The court was hearing a PIL, filed in 2006 by Laxmi, a minor girl whose arms, face and body parts were disfigured in an acid attack.
Laxmi, through her counsel Aparna Bhat, had sought framing of a new law or amendment in the existing criminal laws like IPC, Indian Evidence Act and the CrPC for dealing with the offence and had also sought compensation.
She was subjected to acid attack by three youths as she had refused to marry one of them.
Comments
0 comment