Regulate acid sale

The chemical has become a weapon for jilted lovers to disfigure the beloved who couldn't be theirs.

In September last year, Muskan Khatun lost her smile when she was attacked with acid when returning home from school. She may have recovered from the immediate burns, but the scars—on her body and in her mind both—remain, to memorialise the injustice a woman has to face when she hurts a criminal man's fragile ego. Had Muskan been the first and the last survivor of acid attack, what she suffered could have been considered an aberration. But hardly has she recovered from the attack when she has had to return to the Burn Centre at Kirtipur Hospital, where she was treated last year, to support Pavitra Karki, who was attacked with acid late last week.