Published on : 04 Dec 2025, 6:02 am 2 min read

The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed deep shock after an acid attack survivor informed the Court that the criminal trial against those who attacked her remains pending before a trial court in Delhi to date, sixteen years after the case was registered in 2009 [ Shaheen Malik v. Union of India and anr. ].

The submission was made before a Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi .

" There was an attack on me in the year 2009. But now I work for others. There are others who are made to drink acid and they suffer equally. They are made to eat food by food pipe ," the acid attack survivor's counsel told the Court.

CJI Kant then asked whether the trial against the person who attacked the pe

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