New Delhi: Ten years after a horrific acid left her disfigured, 27-yr-old Sonali Mukherjee is taking baby steps towards a normal life. She is recovering from a reconstructive surgery at Delhi's BL Kapur Memorial Hospital. Her operation was done with the help of the NGO Beti.
"I want to thank CNN-IBN for taking up my story, spreading the message and touching people's hearts so that they donate money and help me," Sonali said.
"My surgery will go on for nearly 1.5 years and I need to go through nine phases," she added.
However, Sonali said that she wasn't getting legal help to fight her case. "Legal help is still difficult. I appealed to Chief Justice, but my case is still not being heard in Jharkhand. The culprits are roaming freely," she said....
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01:50 PM, Sep 13, 2012
New Delhi: A member of parliament from the Jadavpur constituency in West Bengal, Kabir Suman has shown his faith in Sonali Mukherjee via a song. Twenty seven-year-old Sonali Mukherjee was attacked with acid in 2003 after she objected to the advances of three men in Dhanbad. Dhanbad, Jharkhand, was Sonali's hometown where in April, 2003, three neighbouring youth poured acid on her while she slept because she dared to raise...
01:26 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Ten years after the horrific incident, 27-year-old acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee on Thursday underwent a reconstructive surgery at BL Kapur Memorial Hospital in New Delhi. Doctors attending on Sonali said that she is still in the ICU as she has developed some respiratory complications but they assured that her condition will stabilise in a few hours. It was after CNN-IBN had highlighted her plight and initiated a...
05:23 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Ranchi: The Jharkhand government on Friday offered a government job to acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee after CNN-IBN ran a campaign to help her. In addition, Chief Minister Arjun Munda assured adequate security to her family. Twenty seven-year-old Sonali Mukherjee was attacked with acid in 2003 after she spurned the advances of three men in her neighbourhood in her village in Dhanbad. However, for nine years, justice eluded her and...
05:20 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Bokaro: Even as financial and medical help pours in for acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee, justice still eludes her. It's just the beginning of a long battle ahead for her. As soon as she reached her hometown of Bokaro in Jharkhand, she went to meet the Bokaro Deputy Commissioner, demanding justice. Her family, meanwhile, has knocked on every possible door, to help secure a job for her. It approached Jharkhand...
09:14 AM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: They came in the dead of night, broke into her home as she slept and poured a cocktail of acids over her face - burning her skin, melting her eyelids, nose, mouth and ears, and leaving her partially deaf and almost blind. Her crime - she had spurned their sexual advances. Nine years on, Sonali Mukherjee, 27, is appealing to the government for medical support for skin reconstructive...
10:39 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: Nine years after Sonali Mukherjee was left visually impaired, partially hearing impaired and disfigured due to an acid attack in Jharkhand, several people have now offered help. This came after CNN-IBN focused on the plight of the 27-year-old and has continuously been campaigning to raise funds for her treatment. Help is pouring in after CNN-IBN showed how she is struggling for medical and financial aid, nine years after...
09:44 AM, Jul 19, 2012
Twenty-seven-year-old Sonali Mukherjee has been running from pillar to post for the past nine years fighting for justice. She was attacked with acid when she spurned the advances of three men in her neighbourhood in her village in Dhanbad, the capital of Jharkhand. However, nine years on, justice still eludes her and her perpetrators remain scot free. Sonali, meanwhile, has demanded euthanasia to help end her struggle as her family...
11:51 AM, Jul 17, 2012
The victim spoke to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose about her fight for justice. ...
09:48 AM, Jul 17, 2012
27-year-old Sonali Mukherjee is still struggling to come to terms with the trauma of an acid attack nine years ago that left her blind and barely alive. ...
11:58 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Sonali Mukherjee seeks justice, tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor discusses with a panel of experts, is the law far too weak in dealing with crimes against women?
01:56 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: A day after CNN-IBN aired the story of an acid victim from Jharkhand, who is in Delhi, struggling to find legal and medical help, the Jharkhand government has promised to look into her case. But activists say curbing the sale of acid and stronger laws are needed to prevent such attacks. 27-year-old Sonali Mukherjee is still struggling to come to terms with the trauma of an acid attack...
10:29 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Supreme Court lawyer Aparna Bhat, who filed the PIL in the Sonali Mukherjee acid attack case, says she is willing to help her for free. ...
02:12 PM, Jul 15, 2012
New Delhi: A 27-year-old victim of an acid attack has been struggling to get justice for the past nine years. All her pleas, however, have fallen on deaf ears and her perpetrators are roaming scot-free. The distraught girl has now demanded euthanasia as her family cannot meet her medical costs. Sonali Mukherjee's story displays the raw indifference of the society and our inability to protect those who can't protect themselves....
07:38 AM, Jul 15, 2012
