Uttaranchal High Court:<\/strong> Taking consideration of the trauma and uncertainty faced by the acid attack victims, and observing that incidents of acid burning or throwing cause physical, mental and psychological torture and that every person has a right to life including the right to live free from any kind of mental, physical and psychological torture, be it stalking, sexual harassment or burning, the Division Bench of Rajiv Sharma and Sharad Sharma, JJ., issued the following mandatory directions for the State Government to control and curb the cases of acid attacks:<\/p>\n In a passionately written judgment, the Judges quoted several landmark decisions of the Supreme Court and of Courts of other nations wherein it has been reiterated several times that \u2018life\u2019 does not mean mere animal existence; it means the right to live with human dignity and all that goes along with it. Similarly \u2018liberty\u2019 envisages much more than just\u00a0the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restrain of his person. [State of Uttarakhand v. Ajam, 2017 SCC OnLine Utt 695<\/a>, decided on 12.06.2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Uttaranchal High Court: Taking consideration of the trauma and uncertainty faced by the acid attack victims, and observing that incidents of acid <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":40921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts"],"yoast_head":"\n\n