Scarred for life: Reshma looking at a photograph of herself before the attack in her home at a slum in the eastern suburbs of Mumbai.
MUMBAI: The Indian teenager’s voice trembles as she recalls the day she lost her face when her brother-in-law and his friends pinned her down and doused her with acid.
Amid the horror of the attack, which followed a family dispute, Reshma Qureshi should have received swift state aid after India’s top court ruled that victims were entitled to 100,000 rupees (RM5,219) within 15 days.
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