Supreme Court gives order for regulating the sale of acid and increasing compensation

The SC issued directions to States and Union Territories to frame rules to regulate sale of acids and other corrosive substances within three months and make acid attack a non-bailable offence. The directions came in the wake of the struggle launched by acid-survivor Laxmi and her advocate Aparna Bhat who had filed a petition in the SC in 2006 seeking for the ban of over-the-counter acid sales.