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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Draft rules to curb acid sale

Draft rules to curb acid sale

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published Published on Jul 17, 2013   modified Modified on Jul 17, 2013
-The Telegraph


The Centre today submitted in the Supreme Court a "draft model rule" to restrict sale and purchase of acid in the country following the rising number of attacks on women by criminal elements and jilted lovers.

Under the draft rules, the sale of acid will be restricted to industrial use, battery dealers, school/college chemical labs and hospitals. It will be obligatory for all buyers to furnish their photo identity and residential address to dealers at the time of purchase.

Further, all dealers, wholesalers and others dealing with acid substances must have special licences to sell them.

Solicitor-general Mohan Parasaran told a bench of Justices R.M. Lodha and S.J. Mukhopadhya the Centre had framed the draft rules under the provisions of the Poisons Act, 1919, for implementation by states and sought directions for it.

Parasaran told the bench the act came under the concurrent list, so it would not be possible for the Centre to ensure its implementation by states. Hence, it would be appropriate if the court directed states to do so.

Appreciating the government's efforts, the court asked the solicitor-general and counsel Aparna Bhatt, appearing for the petitioner, to sit together and work out further modalities so that an appropriate order could be passed on Thursday.

Last week, the court had slammed the Centre and the states for failing to stop acid attacks. It also told the Centre that if it failed to draw up a policy to regulate sale of acid, the court would pass an order on July 16 to ban retail sale.

At present, acid is mostly used for cleaning toilets and is freely available. Owing to the huge demand, even small traders stock up large quantities of acid, not to mention bigger provision stores.

The court had pulled up the Centre for seeking more time to file an affidavit despite its April 16 directive that a suitable mechanism must be put in place to regulate sale of acid and evolve adequate rehabilitation measures for victims. The government had been given four weeks to draw up a draft policy.

"People are dying every day as the incidents are increasing every day. Think of the plight of the girl (a Delhi girl who died in Mumbai in an acid attack). Seriousness is required from the government, which is not seen here. In our 16-4-2013 order, we have expressed concern as incidents of acid attacks across the country are happening and one reason for this is easy availability of acid for sale in the country," the bench had told the government.

The apex court is hearing a PIL filed by Laxmi, who was attacked with acid in 2006 by a jilted lover in Delhi. The petitioner had sought a ban on free sale of acid on the ground that miscreants were increasingly using it to target women who spurned their advances.

The government brought to the court's notice the February 3, 2013, ordinance making acid attacks a serious offence that could entail a maximum punishment of life imprisonment and a fine of Rs10 lakh under a new provision of the IPC.


The Telegraph, 17 July, 2013, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130717/jsp/nation/story_17125842.jsp#.UeZOiKzcjco


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