The court also sought response from all state governments for providing free treatment to acid victims including the cost of plastic surgery.
An apex court bench headed by Justic RMLodha gave the extension after counsel Aparna Bhat said that except for Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry, no other state or Union Territory had taken any steps to frame rules to regulate the sale of acid on the lines of the model rules framed by the central government.
Taking the Haryana government schemes as model, the SC asks the government to respond why they should not bear cost of corrective and plastic surgery required by acid attack victims and follow up psychiatric treatment to enable the victim to recover from the horrific experience.
The SC also asked the police to inform the concerned SDM immediately about an acid attack case so that he could inquire how the corrosive substance was procured.
Haryana government told the Supreme Court that it is bearing the entire cost of medical and psychiatric treatment of an acid attack victim as well as the plastic surgery required by the victim.
A bench also asked the chief secretaries of all states and administrators of Union Territories to give their response by April 15 2014.
The apex court had July 16, 2013 issued detailed directions to all state governments and union territories to frame rules within three months for regulating the sale of acid.
(With inputs from IANS)
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