To,
Director,
National Crime Research Bureau
East Block-7, R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066, India


Subject : Request for to report abuse against men in gender and domestic crime statistics.


Dear Sir,

I am writing on behalf of Save Indian Family Foundation.

The request is for addition of a new section to annual crime reports published by National Crime Research Bureau, for offences against men.

We are aware that it is presumed in Indian law that there can not be sexual or domestic offences against men. However studies world-wide has shown that women are equally likely to be abusive in gender relationship. Absence of laws and social pressures prevent victimized men from approaching police stations. We have received a number of complaints from men and husbands, about the offences of sexual nature and domestic sphere. But all of them were reluctant to approach police stations or have reported that there complaints were not actionable in law and hence there is no use of filing such complaints.

In view of such scenario, to enable the parliament to understand the situation of abuse of genders in sexual and domestic relationship, we request NCRB to gather statistics of the complaints filed by men, even if those are not actionable in law, but would have been actionable, if would have been filed by men and report them in annual crime statistics. So that parliament may be able to understand the plight of men, who face sexual or domestic abuse.

In light of above knowledge, we request you to remove crime against women section from annual crime reports and add two sections
1. Gender abuse
2. Domestic abuse

The two sections may further be divided for male and female, such as



The gender abuse for male and female section may list statistics of offences related to gender such as
Sr. no. offence Male Female
1. Rape S.377 According to law
2. Molestation No. of non-actionable reports due to absence of law According to law
3. Sexual harassment No. of non-actionable reports due to absence of law According to law
4. Immoral traffic act No. of non-actionable reports due to absence of law According to law
5. Indecent representation of women No. of non-actionable reports due to absence of law According to law.


And Domestic abuse for male and female may list statistics of offences in domestic sphere such as

Sr. No. Offence Male Female
1. Sati prevention act Husbands murdered by his in-laws According to law
2. Dowry death Husbands murdered by his in-laws and who have committed suicide and accused wife or her relatives of causing such suicide. According to law.
3. S.498a Cases Grievous Hurt, voluntary hurt or criminal intimidation by wife and her relatives or any other cases which were not actionable in law. According to law.
4. Domestic violence act Non-actionable complaints by men against female members of family According to law.

Such data report will help Parliament legislate laws in correct balance of genders. We wish NCRB to assist in providing statistical data to also give foresight into need of legislations in the country.

It is also to be noted that although India has all such offences absent for Men, most developed countries recognize these offences for men too and the National Crime Research Bureau of these countries also report the same offences against men. I am attaching report of gender crime statistics reported in UK.

Please also note that if the laws are absent in India, does not mean that the crimes against men do not happen in India. We look upto NCRB to provide the data to Parliament to be able to take decision on legislating these laws for gender and domestic abuse for men and women.
Yours sincerely,



(Name )

Copy sent to
1. Minister of Home Affairs, New Delhi
2. Prime Minister of India, PMO Office, New Delhi
3. V.K. Duggal, Home Secretary, Govt. of India, New Delhi
4. Minister of Parliamentary affairs, New Delhi
5. Cabinet Minister

Gender crime report UK is hosted at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/rdsolr1206.pdf.