Shocked that an acid attack victim had not got closure 16 years after the crime was committed, the Supreme Court of India made a slew of oral observations early this week calling the slow pace a “mockery of the system”. The Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice Surya Kant, said acid attackers must not be shown any sympath y by courts, and called for the “entire system” to respond against them. Shaheen Malik was 26 and was studying for an MBA degree when she was attacked outside her office in Haryana in 2009. Till 2013, “nothing happened” in her case, she told the CJI. The case was finally transferred to Rohini court in Delhi from Haryana, where the trial is pending and “final arguments” are on. Ms. Malik has undergone reconstructive surgeries, and in 2021, she set up Brave Souls, an NGO

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