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The Supreme Court connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) directed each the High Courts to taxable details of pending trials related to acerb onslaught cases crossed the state wrong 4 weeks, terming the 16-year hold successful 1 of the trials successful a Delhi tribunal arsenic a "national shame".
A Bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi besides issued notices to the Centre and the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities connected a PIL filed by acerb onslaught subsister Shaheen Malik.
The Bench termed arsenic "national shame" the prolonged hold successful Malik's ain case, which has been pending since 2009 earlier a Rohini tribunal successful New Delhi.
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"What a mockery of the ineligible system! This is specified a shame. If the nationalist superior cannot grip this, past who will? This is nationalist shame," the Bench said.
The CJI asked Ms. Malik to record an exertion successful the PIL itself explaining wherefore the substance has not been concluded, assuring her that the tribunal whitethorn adjacent instrumentality suo motu cognisance.
The Bench sought the details from the registry of each the High Courts wrong 4 weeks.
During the hearing, Ms. Malik highlighted the plight of victims who are forced to ingest acid, often surviving with artificial feeding tubes and terrible disabilities.
The Bench besides sought the Centre's effect connected her plea that acerb onslaught survivors beryllium categorised arsenic persons with disabilities to guarantee entree to payment schemes.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta assured the tribunal that the contented would beryllium taken up with "due seriousness," adding that perpetrators "should conscionable with the aforesaid ruthlessness arsenic done here."
The CJI urged the Centre to see amending the law, done authorities oregon adjacent an ordinance, truthful that acerb onslaught survivors are formally included wrong the explanation of persons with disabilities nether the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act.
The CJI said that acerb onslaught cases should ideally beryllium tried by peculiar courts to guarantee swift justice.
