The State government on Monday told the Bombay High Court that it will either consider extending the Manodhariya scheme benefits to rape and acid attack victims with the retrospective effect of 2009 or widen the definition of a victim since the time of its implementation in 2013.
Assistant public prosecutor Mankhuwar Deshmukh informed a division Bench of Justices Naresh Patil and P.D. Naik that the State will consider one of the two options. The Bench questioned the State how it can restrict the definition of a victim as the Code of Criminal Procedure doesn’t provide the same.
The court was hearing a plea of a minor girl’s father, who was raped several times between July 2012 and January 2013, and was seeking compensation under the scheme introduced in October 2013.
