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When lawyer Aparna Bhat first met Laxmi Agarwal in 2005, the latter was 15 and had undergone two surgeries in two months after an acid attack that had left her face and neck nearly charred. Though Bhat, then 35, had worked on several cases of domestic and sexual violence, the meeting with Agarwal shook her. “I had never seen anything like that,” Bhat told HuffPost India.
A human rights lawyer who mostly worked on cases of violence against women and children, Bhat had often discussed the need to ban the sale of acid in India. “There were people already working on the issue, to be fair. There was this organisation in Bangalore which had been demanding a ban on acid,” Bhat said.
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Bhat not only took up Agarwal’s fight for justice, she also filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in 2006, seeking a ban on the sale of acid, a case she fought for 11 long years against successive governments.
When Bhat started work on Agarwal’s case, Naeem, the 35-year-old man who plotted the attack, was out on bail. But the woman accused, Rakhi, Naaem’s brother’s partner who actually threw the acid on Agarwal in conspiracy with him, was jailed and never got bail.
“It was atrocious!” Bhat said.
In 2009, four years after the attack, both Naeem and Rakhi were convicted to life in prison. Bhat’s PIL also led to significant changes in the lives of acid attack survivors—the Indian Penal Code was amended to introduce a section that exclusively dealt with acid attacks; a universal compensation scheme was drawn up; acid sales were ordered to be regulated; and finally, in 2015, the Supreme Court issued a directive that made it mandatory for private and public hospitals to treat acid attack victims for free.
Most recently, Bhat made headlines for moving court against the makers of Deepika Padukone’s Chhapaak, demanding that she be given due credit in the movie. After the Patiala House Court in Delhi directed Meghna Gulzar’s team to credit Bhat, the film’s producers challenged the order in the Delhi high court. After the Delhi HC also ruled in favour of Bhat, her name now appears in the list of people credited at the beginning of the film.
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