{"id":51313,"date":"2022-12-21T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/dec\/21\/acid-attack-ban-online-sales-india-delhi"},"modified":"2022-12-21T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T06:00:04","slug":"acid-attack-survivors-demand-ban-on-online-sales-after-girl-targeted-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51313","title":{"rendered":"Acid attack survivors demand ban on online sales after girl targeted in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s groups and activists call on authorities to toughen laws after two men threw corrosive liquid at a schoolgirl on a street last week<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of acid attack survivors are demanding stricter laws against the sale of chemicals, after two men on a motorbike threw a corrosive liquid on a 17-year-old girl on her way to school in Delhi <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/youth-throws-acid-on-17-year-old-delhi-girl-3-arrested-in-case\/articleshow\/96237647.cms\">last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the main attacker, a boy under 18, bought the acid online. The video of the incident captured by a CCTV camera was widely shared and caused outrage in India, leading to a new campaign to tackle online sales.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/dec\/21\/acid-attack-ban-online-sales-india-delhi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s groups and activists call on authorities to toughen laws after two men threw corrosive liquid at a schoolgirl on a street last weekHundreds of acid attack survivors are demanding stricter laws against the sale of chemicals, after two men on a m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,62,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51314,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51313\/revisions\/51314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}