Knowledge reveals greater than 650 acid assaults in India in three years, West Bengal tops checklist, adopted by Uttar Pradesh

The authorities of India is regularly working in direction of bolstering the present legal guidelines to cope with blatant crimes like acid assaults within the nation, however the variety of such instances retains on growing. 

Now, in line with the newest knowledge revealed by Crime of India, 659 complete instances had been registered underneath acid assaults between 2018 and 2020. 

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The state of West Bengal topped the checklist with a complete of 160 instances, adopted by Uttar Pradesh with 115 instances and Odisha in third with 35 instances. 

These states had been adopted by Madhya Pradesh with 34 acid assault instances, Bihar with 30, Punjab with 29, Gujarat with 27, Kerala with 27, and Delhi with 23 instances throughout these three years from 2018 to 2020.

List of acid assault instances between 2018 and 2020

The Crime in India sources revealed that states like Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Sikkim registered no acid assault instances in these three years, from 2018-2020. 

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The knowledge additional confirmed that Andaman and Nicobar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep, and Puducherry are among the many Union Territories that didn’t register any instances of acid assault throughout these three years.