The Supreme Court on Thursday said that acid-attackers must be tried under the provision of Attempt to Murder under penal laws, in cases where they are accused of forcibly making the victim ingest the acid.

A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi stated that there should be no doubt that such cases must be tried under Attempt to Murder and not under the provision of Voluntarily causing grievous hurt.

“There should not be any second opinion. These matters must be tried on the provision of 307 (Attempt to Murder: Section 307 of the erstwhile IPC, Section 109 in BNS). In the penal laws also an exception can also be added in the most heinous and inhumane cases. These people (attackers) have no right to roam in society. They are a threat to society, a threat to civilian people a

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