5 min readNew DelhiJun 8, 2026 04:00 PM IST The Allahabad High Court recently expressed strong displeasure over the state government’s inability to put in place a rehabilitation policy for acid attack survivors, questioning how such a sensitive and grave issue affecting basic human dignity did not receive the urgent attention it deserves at the highest administrative level. A bench of Justices Saral Srivastava and Garima Prashad was hearing a plea filed by an acid attack survivor seeking enhanced compensation and rehabilitation support. The court lamented that the petitioner suffered the acid attack in 2011 and, despite the passage of nearly 15 years, no meaningful framework for her economic rehabilitation, livelihood support or financial security was produced before it. “The obligation of the State must extend towards ensuring recurring monetary assistance, employment opportunities, social security measures and meaningful economic rehabilitation enabling such survivors to live with dignity guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India,” the court noted in its order dated May 25. Court seeks ‘concrete policy’ On the previous date of hearing, …