THE LOGIC behind the recent acid law being framed by the National Commission of Women (NCW) is hard to understand. In the law the victim can only be a woman or child and never a teen or an adult male. Time and time again it has been proved beyond doubt that men and their male family members have been victims of brutal acid attacks which have scarred them for life. Most recently, the Australian police arrested an Indian woman who burned her husband by throwing acid on him. Many a times these heinous crimes are caused by the wife’s family to extract revenge. The current laws only protect women like the anti-dowry law and the Domestic Violence Act, 2005 and they have been misused in almost 98 per cent of instances in collusion with the corrupt police and judiciary to unleash “legal terrorism” on the husband and his family.
The National Commission for Women (NCW) is once again doing what it does best; draft biased one sided laws that benefit only women. The fundamental ideas behind all NCW drafted laws is basically the same:
What does a man do if he is brutally attacked by his wife or any estranged woman or her hired henchmen with acid? Numerous cases have come to light where the father-in-law of the husband has hired professional gangsters to brutally beat/harass the husband.
Acid attacks are equally brutal for either gender, no matter if it a woman’s skin or a man’s, it is equally painful to both. The life of an acid attack victim changes for worse irrespective of the gender. The acid law must be made gender neutral so that any person who has been victimised in an acid attack can be entitled to equal justice under this law.
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