Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Thursday (December 4, 2025) said acid attackers must be shown zero sympathy by courts, and the “entire system” must respond against them.

The Supreme Court was hearing a plea by an acid attack survivor, Shaheen Malik, to formally recognise acid attack survivors as persons with specified disabilities under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016.

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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Central government, agreed with the CJI, saying perpetrators of acid attacks who leave victims, mostly women and minors, scarred inside and outside for the rest of their lives “must meet with the same ruthlessness as they showed their victims”.

“No courts must have any sympathy for them (persons accu

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