{"id":34430,"date":"2014-07-26T18:56:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=34430"},"modified":"2014-07-26T18:56:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T13:26:13","slug":"sc-notice-hiking-acid-attack-victims-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-notice-hiking-acid-attack-victims-compensation","title":{"rendered":"SC notice on hiking acid attack victims&#8217; compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: 16px\/28px Georgia, arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><b style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold;\">(IANS)<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the central and state governments and union territory administrations on a plea seeking enhancement of compensation to acid attack victims from the existing Rs.3 lakh to Rs.10 lakh coupled with free medical treatment that involves a series of surgeries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 16px\/28px Georgia, arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">The central government is not active in addressing the issue, observed a bench of Chief Justice R.M. 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