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Justice a distant dream for acid attack survivors

Despite various legal provisions to address, acid attack as a form of gender violence does not get the importance it deserves. Rima, 38, (name changed) has suffered repeated episodes of dome stic violence after marriage, owing to her inability to pay dowry. In 2000, she chanced upon her widowed mother-in-law with another man. Humiliated, her […]