Sonali Mukherjee is a woman from Dhanbad, India, whose face was permanently disfigured by an acid attack in 2003 when she was 18.
[citation needed] In 2003, almost one and half months prior to the incident, three alleged assailants - Tapas Mitra, and his two friends Sanjay Paswan and Bhrahmadev Hajra - told her that she was a Ghamandi (arrogant) person, and they would teach her a lesson.
On 22 April, when she was asleep on the roof of her house, she was attacked with acid and left with a burnt face and other severe injuries.
Mukherjee's family approached the court and various other authorities for justice, including the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, multiple MPs, but she received "aashwasan [assurances] ... nothing else".
[5] In February 2014, the State Government of Jharkhand appointed Sonali Mukherjee as Grade III clerk in the welfare department of the Bokaro deputy commissioner's office.