JUDGMENT

Ujjal Bhuyan, J. - Heard Ms. Aditi Saxena, learned counsel for the petitioner and Smt. Purav, learned AGP for respondent Nos.1 and 2. None has appeared for respondent No.3 - Union of India.

2. By filing this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, petitioner basically seeks a direction to the respondents to grant her compensation by treating her burn injuries caused due to pouring of corrosive substance on her at par with victims of acid attack under the Manodhairya Compensation Scheme framed by the Government of Maharashtra. Additional prayers have been made which also pertain to providing further compensation to the petitioner.

3. Petitioner married Nityanand Jagan Shetty on 22.04.2005 and out of the wedlock two sons were born. She resides at Room No.147, Shivaji Chawl, S. V. Road, Shanti Nagar, Dongri, Dahisar (East), Mumbai. While the husband remains unemployed, petitioner earns her livelihood by selling imitation jewellery in local trains.

3.1. On 24.11.2010 at about 5:00 a.m. when the petitioner was sleeping, the husband removed the bed-sheet (chadar) from her face and before the petitioner could realize what was happening, the husband poured boiling inf