Default Title - "Scars and Things"

"Scars and things"

ACID: def- "A hazardous substance used by men to destroy a woman's face when she rejects him"

Dec 2005
Laxmi was attacked with acid by a spurned lover who was 17 years older to her, in 2005, when she  was merely 15 years old. 
She was attacked in the crowded Central Delhi area in daytime, where the spurned lover, along with his brother's girlfriend, approached Laxmi, flung her and threw acid on her face
This attack disfigured her face, ears, hands and chest. The doctors had to remove the entire skin from her face.
Till now Laxmi has undergone 7 surgeries, and still need four more surgeries before she can go for a plastic surgery.she also searched for jobs,  some said people will get scared if they see you. Others said they will call back but, of course, the phone never rang.
“I tried BPOs, banks and beauty parlours but all I got was rejection. Nobody wants to hire acid victims because of the way they look”.

Jan 2010
Fourteen-year-old Dolly survived an acid attack a year-and-a-half ago. Her attacker, 25-year-old Pradeep, had been pressuring her to enter into a sexual relationship with him. 
Dolly lives with her parents and four siblings live in a rented home at Sultanganj ki Pulai. Dolly has not yet received any relief or help from the administration, and all the expenses in her treatment since the attack have been borne by her family. Despite treatment, her nostrils remain disfigures, causing her crippling problems with her breathing. 

Feb 2009
Sameera, a 17 year young girl had just qualified for miss chandigarh 2009, Her gorgeous face and slim figure had got many boys mad over her. Parvinder was one of those! Parvinder, 19 had a criminal character and lived in a chawl near Sameera's house. Parvinder said, he was madly in love with Sameera but she rapidly rejected his proposals. One afternoon when she was travelling to fashion institute with her driver, 4 boys attacked her car and slapped the driver to stay down. Parvinder, covered with mask splashed acid on her face.
She is now a makeup artist in low budget films and says that her dream of becoming a supermodel will be fulfilled by her daughter.
                          SOCIETY
The above mentioned stories are true incidents. All the 3 Criminals from respected stories have got bail and are out on streets, one, after completing his 14 year imprisonment and two, with not even put on remand due.

The first two victims, shouting on road for help, didn't got any of the help from the Streetwalkers, instead of them, watching the scene.

I'm not gonna able to rest the night after reading those incidents. Is our society, our law and order, our politicians, this weak? Acid attacks are happening since ages but still no one has either taken a strict action against. There are moreover 500 cases from 2010 to 2014 and most of them are of young lovers attacking the girls when she rejects them. Why? Those girls who were attacked had their own life, their own dreams which they wanted to live, but those all things were destroyed in few seconds.
Nothing is the fault of those guys who did that. From where did they got courage to do... or even think of doing such intense and fuckin' dirty crime..... their dad is a politician? A lawyer? A policeman? Or even a drunk brat who hits his wife overnight?
Most of these guys are uneducated criminals who haven't got that sense to think those "don't do's" before committing those crimes. Or else they know that they are backed out by their respective relatives who have that power.
I mean why? If your son, or anyone is doing such a crime should be hung to death with no guilt's, no regrets or no pain of losing them.. they dont have a single right to even think of redoing the same thing after backed, so they should not be backed.
Well said the writer of some film, that the  man who said, "Everything is fair in love and war", if  true then the acid attacks are also acceptable and the rape crimes also.
Why do we even think that we have a right to destroy somebody's future or even force somebody to love you?
Love is not the thing understood by these guys, those feelings, those beautiful moments.... every girl has a right to decide with whom to spend that quality time.

And i also dont know why the spectators who get involved in such cases dont help the victims and instead create a scene? I mean at least call an ambulance! Im worried for my female friends, and my family, if anyone got under these circumstances what would i do? Those victims also had family and friends!
After all these things, not only those insane lovers are responsible for these things but, The Law, The politics, The rules under crime section, currently 14 years of imprisonment for acid attacks. Everything should be changed, the duration should be converted to life imprisonment surely, because those people dont deserve love and life.

People like us, whenever free, should participate in organisations to help these victims whatever it can be. Im not a promotee, nor a marketing agent, nor the founder but still guys, log on to www.stopacidattacks.org and join them!
Please... its we! The youth who can help stop these things.

"It takes on 2 minutes to blush on a face but only 3 seconds to scar a face"
                      -  Laxmi Agarwal

"Finding a darker shade lipstick is harder than finding concentrated acid"
                     - Acid attack victim
 
"Whenever i close my eyes, a face reflects.... a face of a girl who got hurt by an acid attack but got pained by the society!
                         -Akanksha Singh