Chandigarh, Feb. 20 -- The Chandigarh administration has informed the Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) that acid attack victims in the city will receive a lifetime monthly pension of Rs.10,000 from April 1. A notification in this regard was placed on record by the UT on Thursday before the HC. The court was hearing a contempt petition filed by advocate HC Arora against the UT administration in March last year. Arora had alleged that in a PIL filed by him, UT administration had undertaken to pay monthly financial assistance to acid attack victims at the rate it is paid by Punjab and Haryana, but it did not keep its promise while Punjab was paying a monthly pension of Rs.10,000 since 2016. htc...