New Guidelines to Tackle Acid Attacks

The Ministry of Home Affairs is working on preparing a web based application for regulating and tracking sale of acid. The Ministry of Home Affairs has also approached the nationalised insurance agencies to develop a mechanism for providing cashless treatment facility to acid attack victims throughout the country. Fast Tracking of all cases of crimes against women has always been priority of the Government. Necessary steps have been taken in this regard.

This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary in a written reply to a question by Shri T.Rathinavel in the Rajya Sabha today.