{"id":84702,"date":"2019-03-19T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2019-03-19T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:03:14","slug":"acid-attack-an-uncivilised-heartless-crime-perpetrator-does-not-deserve-any-clemency-sc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/acid-attack-an-uncivilised-heartless-crime-perpetrator-does-not-deserve-any-clemency-sc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Acid attack an \u2018uncivilised, heartless crime\u2019; perpetrator does not deserve any clemency: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Supreme Court has condemned acid attacks and\nviewed them as \u201cuncivilised and heartless crimes\u201d. The court has further added\nthat acid attack perpetrators do not deserve any leniency.<\/li><li>The Supreme Court has observed this while asking\ntwo convicts to pay Rs. 1.5 lakh each as additional compensation to the acid attack\nvictim. The convicts had thrown acid on a girl in 2004 in Himachal Pradesh.\nThey have already undergone five-year rigorous imprisonment. <\/li><li>The Supreme Court has further directed the state\ngovernment to pay compensation to the acid attack survivor under the Victim\nCompensation Scheme. <\/li><li>The Victim Compensation scheme seeks to provide financial\nsupport to victims of various crimes such as rape, gang rape, acid attacks, and\nunnatural sexual assault. The compensation part of the rehabilitation of\nvictims of violence is governed by provision of Section 357A of the Code of\nCriminal Procedure. It states that every State Government in co-ordination with\nthe Central Government shall prepare a scheme for providing funds for the purpose\nof compensation to the victim of crime.<\/li><li>In 2018, the Supreme Court approved Compensation\nScheme for Women Victims\/Survivors of Sexual Assault\/other Crimes. The scheme\nis not linked with the trial in such cases. Under this scheme, the victim can\napproach the State or District Legal Services Authority for compensation\nimmediately after the incident. The scheme empowers legal services authority to\ntake suo moto cognizance of cases of sexual assault and acid attack to grant interim\nrelief to victims.<\/li><li>Acid Attack Victims have also been included in\nthe Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016. The act seeks to enhance the\nRights and Entitlements of disabled people and provide effective mechanism for\nensuring their empowerment and true inclusion into the society. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has condemned acid attacks and viewed them as \u201cuncivilised and heartless crimes\u201d. The court has further added that acid attack perpetrators do not deserve any leniency. The Supreme Court has observed this while asking two convicts to pay Rs. 1.5 lakh each as additional compensation to the acid attack victim. The convicts&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/acid-attack-an-uncivilised-heartless-crime-perpetrator-does-not-deserve-any-clemency-sc-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Acid attack an \u2018uncivilised, heartless crime\u2019; perpetrator does not deserve any clemency: SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1763],"class_list":["post-84702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-acid-attacks","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704715004},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}