She was attacked with acid and had now married the love of her life

IN 2012 Lalita had a ‘small’ argument with her cousin who then threw acid on her. She has now found love.

Acid attack victim Lalita Ben Bansi marries with Ravi Shankar at Thane Registration office. Picture: Sipa USA/Splash Australia

THE beautiful bride could not hide her stunning smile as she wed her loving partner.

Lalita Ben Bansi 26 recently married Ravi Shankar 27, in Mumbai. The newlyweds had met after a wrong number mix up and she credits him with teaching her to believe in love again.

Bansi’s face was severely disfigured in 2012 when her cousin threw acid on her after a minor argument.

She has had to undergo 17 surgeries since then and find the confidence she has lost along the way, with the help of her new husband.

“I had to only convince my mother to accept my choice. I had to make Lalita believe that she too had the right to a better life,” Shankar told the Hindustan Times.

The beautiful bride beamed on the day and said ‘miracles do happen’.

Lalita Ben Bansi and Ravi Shankar Picture: Sipa USA/Splash Australia

Acid attacks on women in India are common place and are deeply embedded in the history of the country’s “privileged patriarchal control over women and justified the use of violence” according to The Acid Survivors Foundation India.

The foundations’s survivor stories are littered with tales of unjust punishments for acid attackers such as Haseena Hussain from Bangalore whose former boss poured a full jar of sulfuric acid over her because she wouldn’t go back to work for him. She ended up with a hole in her head, loss of eyesight, dissolved lips, nose and earlobes and one side of her neck fused to her shoulder. He got five years jail and was fined around $A6000.