SRINAGAR : The Supreme Court on Thursday directed all high courts to furnish details of pending acid attack trials across India within four weeks, criticising a 16-year delay in one case in Delhi as a “national shame.” A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notices to the Centre and the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities on a PIL filed by acid attack survivor Shaheen Malik. Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

The bench expressed strong condemnation of the prolonged delay in Malik’s case, which has been pending since 2009 before a Rohini court. “What a mockery of the legal system! This is such a shame. If the national capital cannot handle this, then who will? This is national shame,” the judges remarked. Ch

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