India, May 11 -- After losing a 16-year legal battle for justice for an acid attack in December 2025, Shaheen Malik knew what she had to do: keep fighting.

Not for herself necessarily-though she has filed an appeal against the acquittal of the three people charged with masterminding the attack on her-but for all she represents as the founder of the Brave Souls Foundation.

Shaheen had filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court WHEN flagging a gap in the law that defines an acid attack survivor as a person "disfigured due to violent assault by the throwing of acid."

But what about those who are not disfigured? What of those like Rashmi Bhatia and Rumana whose husbands forced them to drink acid? They have no external scars, b...