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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
NATIONAL FAMILY HARMONY DAY - 12/11/2010, Bangalore
This is to bring to the notice of all about the Celebration of NATIONAL FAMILY HARMONY DAY on 12th November, 2010, like it was held last year.
This time in Bangalore "Law Minister for State Mr. Suresh Kumar" has consented to attend and witness the Programme along with
Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City, Mr. Shankara Bidari
Member of Legislative Counsel, Mrs. S.R. Leela
Member of Legislative Assembly, Mr. Ravisubramanya
President of Women Devlopment Corporation, Mrs. Sarojini Bharadwaj
Wife of Member of Parliament Ananthkumar, Mrs. Tejaswini Ananthkumar
Renowned Psychiatrist and Scientist from NIMHANS, Bangalore, Dr. C R Chandrashekar
Folk Arts fame, from Folk Culture University, Mr.Janapada Ramanna.
Member of Legislative Counsel, Mrs. S.R. Leela
Member of Legislative Assembly, Mr. Ravisubramanya
President of Women Devlopment Corporation, Mrs. Sarojini Bharadwaj
Wife of Member of Parliament Ananthkumar, Mrs. Tejaswini Ananthkumar
Renowned Psychiatrist and Scientist from NIMHANS, Bangalore, Dr. C R Chandrashekar
Folk Arts fame, from Folk Culture University, Mr.Janapada Ramanna.
There will be a Competitional debate convention on the subject "WOMEN CANNOT WORK?... WOMEN HAS TO BE MAINTAINED BY A MAN ALWAYS?"
Around 300 women are expected to participate in the programme.
18 NGOs are supporting and taking Active participation in the Organization and Press confrence to be held on 09-11-2010, including, Akhil Bharath Hindu Maha-sabha, a political Party State Unit, and local BJP unit.
Please feel free to contact 9743183369 for further details.
with regards
R. Shivashankara
President : SAMSEVA
Friday, September 24, 2010
Promotion: New Hindi novel "DMCB".... story of a man accused of murdering his wife
We have a new Hindi novel and author for our cause, "Dhara me chippa bhanwar - Whirlpool hidden in the stream"(DMCB) by Mr.Ashesh Sharma of Jaipur. To see reviews, summary and other details of this novel, please join the facebook fan-page ofDMCB: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dhara-Me-Chhipa-Bhanwar/116566368399355(we already have about 800 pans for DMCB's facebook page, so join in and promote it in your networks too).
This novel is about a man accused of murdering his wife, and how he finally gets a deserving audience to tell his side... and how he amazes and finally conquers the minds of even his so-called adversaries, including the entire law enforcing/judicial system which were at cross with him and was gunning for his blood, right from the word go!!!)
If anyone wants to order a copy of DMCB, please write to ashesh.sharma@ymail.com(ashesh.sharma (at) ymail (dot) com) , the author directly
This book is yet to be officially launched but we already have a big pre-publication order backlog, due to the novelty in story line "Man's journey to explain his side, while state-sponsored oppression tries to pin him down for the alleged crime of murdering his wife".
English translation of this novel is in the pipe-line too, so is the plans of making a full-length feature film.
Please do forward this email to all your concerned contacts, for awareness and success of this novel, which is among the first such literary efforts from a SIF group member.
It may be of interest to note that social conditioning/public opinion and thence introduction of all those women-protection laws(which we are fighting against currently) where a result of many such literary works(a literary wave during 1970's and 80's, as explained in Vijay Dwivedi's (http://ramrajenv.org) PIL(2007) draft) which spread a wrong notion that India as a country is a "wife-killing, wife-beating" society and hence strict laws(read draconic) are needed to curb this trend... now we need to reverse this trend, by encouraging more and more writers, more and more films which spread the truth, and right message, like DMCB is trying to do.
Another novel in this direction is "Kavalu - the deviation", a Novel in Kannada(http://www.facebook.com/pages/KavaluDeviation/125266624186527), please do promote this facebook page too.
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We also would like friends to come forward and stock and distribute copies of this Novel, so that they can distribute it locally to all interested readers, do come forward and mail me(gokul@protectindianfamily.org | gokul (at) protectindianfamily.org) or Ashesh(
ashesh.sharma@ymail.com | ashesh.sharma (at) ymail (dot) com) directly, if you are interested in stocking and distributing DMCB in any quantity, any where in India or abroad(terms of payment, etc,., can be discussed as we proceed, our main objective is awareness, not profit(this will be the start of our 'literary wave'))
Please forward this message to all your concerned contacts through email, orkut, facebook, twitter and other social networking sites.
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We are also in the initial phase of making DMCB into a film, so we are now promoting DMCB novel's fanpage in facebook very aggressively.
As a part of the promotions we request all associated websites and blogs to carry the banner/badge of DMCB's facebook fanpage. All social networking sites like facebook walls, orkut profiles, twitter, myspace, blogspot, wordpress, etc.,. could also carry this badge
Iam pasting the code of this "badge" so that all webmasters can include this in their website appropriately
***********Code for the Badge of DMCB's facebook fanpage************
Dhara Me Chhipa BhanwarAs a part of the promotions we request all associated websites and blogs to carry the banner/badge of DMCB's facebook fanpage. All social networking sites like facebook walls, orkut profiles, twitter, myspace, blogspot, wordpress, etc.,. could also carry this badge
Iam pasting the code of this "badge" so that all webmasters can include this in their website appropriately
***********Code for the Badge of DMCB's facebook fanpage************
Promote Your Page Too
***********End of the Code- for the Badge of DMCB's facebook fanpage************
Please do the needful
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Extortion money.... Priceless!!!
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Friday, July 11, 2008
False Allegations of Dowry- An expose
Yet another false dowry death accusation!
If you had followed how this news unfolded, you would have realised how the deceased girl's parents changed their statement(which they gave on national TV!) each day as more efidence against their accusations against the deceased girl's husband(alleging that his torture and divorce proceedings caused the suicide!, and hence he should be booked for dowry death and abbetting suicide, etc.- all these accusations for extorting money from the husband thus trapped under legal terrorism)
Whereas later it was evident, after due investigations , that the suicide was mainly due to some issues between her and her paramour and colleague(a pilot with the same airline where she was an air-hostess!)
This is a typical-false dowry death allegation.
See below for more details on other similar false allegations
______________________________________
A reply I had sent to many of our parlamentarians, in response to the news: http://www.indianexpress.com/story/333522.htm (about amending dowry death- 304B section of IPC), read on...
*********************
More insensibilities in law, more oppression of innocents - is that what the authorities want?!!!
This is what I posted in one of the forums in Orkut, on the subject of false dowry death cases (http://www.orkut.co.in/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=21840&tid=5220560175977738062&na=2&nst=4)
**********Quote***********
what I really meant is that the wife dies for some reason other than creulty by hubby, but the earlier vengeance and ill-will makes the girls parents to accuse the hubby for 'dowry death'. You should really see the case briefs in http://victims-of-law.blogspot.com/ (there are 1000s, but some of them are about guys accused of killing their wives)
U r in luck, I got the prime example i had in mind, to make this destructive and 'impossible' trend of "making hay when your daughter is dead" syndrome!. See: http://498a.blogspot.com/2008/05/y-p-singh-lucknow-up.html .
I searched and found more in this blog: http://498a.blogspot.com/search?q=dowry+death and http://498a.blogspot.com/search?q=304b
These stories written in blood will blow ur mind and ur belief on some kinda humans too!
**********Un-Quote***********
The recent police circulars by Delhi Police, which are a relief from rampant misuse and shoddy implementation of law by police, also is being objected by Ms.Girija Vyas, while these circulars are following the various supreme court and state high court judgements and directions therein, as mentioned below
Pls refer to two TV programs which was telecasted in CNN-IBN "Delhi moves to save men from fake dowry cases": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90fT42OfemI, a similar program on NDTV can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF596wNcpbA.
There are now 4 police circulars(3 in delhi and 1 in hyderabad) and one High court(Chennai) order which is on similar lines, and which insists that the Police do not arrest innocent husbands and their relatives on mere false complaints(alleging cruelty and harassment) by their vexatious wives, for oblique motives(money, control, vengeance, etc). These directives insist on an investigation before any arrests(this would be sounding ridiculous to many readers of non-Indian origin, but this is a fact of life for many Indians living in India and also abroad!)
This is apart from the 1994 SC judgement(Joginder Vs State of UP) and the allahadbad HC judgement giving more guidelines for arrest and investigation.
See all these details and what you do to stop illegal actions and arrests against you, in this post: http://at498a.blogspot.com/2008/04/arrest-guidelines-in-case-of.html
Warm Regards,
Gokul, http://gokul.page.to, 9821414336(Mumbai)
Editor - www.siftimes.com , Director- www.pifngo.info
Protect Indian Family: "For Family Harmony.. Against Legal Terrorism"
swarup sarkarwrote:
This is the link:
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/333522.html
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/333522.htm
Goverment should not scruble under Pressure of NCW and spoil the common man's life. If such law made, all will became wife killers . If you kill you wife then also you go to jail and if you do not kill your wife then also you go to jail.. what is this ?
Such law will increse the spouse muder more and more , request WCD to use the common sense.
Our View as under :
Dowry death misuse: A Justice Saldhana judgment
Using Six sigma statistics there is no death difference between suicide of married women and never married women so the presumption of dowry death has to be dropped of course the minds of NCW has to be examined specialy Ms.Girija Vyas.
IBN7 Debate Viedo1: IBN7 Debate on Dowry LAW Video-1, Video--2, Video-3
Please look in national crime bureau statistics of 2005 and 2006 .
It is illustrative to note what Justice Saldhana said of dowry law misuse on 2003
The Following judgment in 2000(1) Karnataka Law Online starting on Page no 560 is illustrative of the severity of the abuse of the process of law happening in the dowry harassment and section 498a cases
IN the high Court of Karnataka
M.F.Saldhana & M.S. rajendra Prasad JJ
Crl.A. no. 589 of 2003
Decided on 4-9-2003
important excerpts starting from page 562
we need to sound a note of caution that the police and investigating authorities should not improperly and technically jump to the conclusion that merely because death has occurred that ipso facto a criminal offense has been committed . In as many as 44% of these cases prosecution is thoroughly unjustified. Unless there is cogent and convincing evidence and unless there is material to sustain these charges, it would be totally impermissible and completely unjustified to embark upon legal action. The consequences of these charges are extremely grave because the accused husband and invariably family members are placed under arrest. There are serious social and economic repercussions.
end of excerpt :
a little later following excerpt from same judgment
The fact that we do come across considerable number of instances where prosecution was unjustified seems to indicate that in every case of death of young woman or recently married women that prosecution and filing of charge sheet has become automatic. There does not appear to be a proper application of mind at the stage of scrutiny and having regard to this position we direct the concerned authorities to ensure that requirements of the law are correctly and responsibly followed .
Copy to be followed to D.G. (Police)
Further we witness the cases, even when the wife is alive, still the Husbands/husbands mother/sisters send behind the bar years together and after 2 or 3 years we witness the wife is alive and staying with other men. This clearly evident and expose beyond reasonable dought the loop hole of the law , which can be abused even when the wife is alive, then you can understand what can be happen when a women die in accident/suicide/Murder or any other illness.
YouTube - False dowry death case
NCW want each and every death of a wife to be converted to dowry death, so that they can fool the people that dowry death is increasing and demand more and more fund form the government and other sources.
Such loop sided and assumption based law should be immediately changed by our LAW maker and the same to be made gender equal, husband/wife to be replaced by the word spouse, as more than 52000 married man also end their life in un natural death as per crime Bure report itself, but all the husband killers are moving freely in our society.
Let stop this legal terrorism promoted by NCW and their associated organizations, who wants that each and every home more and more litigations, so that their recommended Panel lawyers can earn more and more money by sucking the blood of common people.
In the IPC already the Murder LAW/Attempt to murder law are there and the convection up to hang to death already available, still they want more and more duplication of law to increase more and more litigation and want to send the innocent people behind the bar without any evidence and without any investigation and want to convert each and every death of a wife to a dowry death to fulfill their hidden agenda.
It is a great challenge to our LAW makers, will they surrender to NCW's absurd, ill-minded proposal or do justice to common people and stop this Legal Terrorism in India in the name of so called dowry Laws, which is totally assumption based instead of any evidence based.
Stiffer dowry law may lead to more abuse: Times News
Sub: Babhu bi kabi Saas Hogi- Dowry Death Law Misuse
Mansi, a little 4 years old girl was sitting on laps of her mother, confused but aware that her grandmother had died last night. Her grandmother Mrs. Sahay died after prolonged illness. Besides her husband Mr. Sahay, she left behind a joint family consisting of her three sons, three daughter-in-laws and half a dozen grandchildren. Mr. Sahay is a senior citizen retired from a white color top govt. post.
Suddenly mansi saw 3-4 persons in khaki, talking aggressively to her father and grandfather.
Mansi innocently asked her mother
"Mamma, are they Yamadutas?
If they are, aren't they making a mistake?
Why they are taking away grandpa, its the grandma who actually have died."
Her mother immidiately put a finger on mansi's mouth and whispered in her ear, "They are not Yamadutas my angle, they are policemen."
Police officer: Mr. sahay, you are under arrest on charges of section 304-B.
Mr. Sahay: But we have been married long back and there was not a single dispute in our whole married life. I have a big joint family and we are living happily.
Police officer: You all have to be arrested and the body of the deceased need to be sent for post mortem.
Mr. Sahay: What do you mean by all? She died a natural death.
Police officer: All means, all your sons and daughter-in-laws also.
Then he changed his tone to bollywood style policeman, "Main farz se majboor hun" (i am duty bound, i cant do anything). You all have to come with me, as by law, husband and all her relatives have to be presumed guilty for an offence of dowry death. Are they not your relatives?
Mr. Sahay: But officer, its more than 35 years since our marriage. Arrest, Why?
Police officer: "Kyonki Saas Bhee Kabhi To Bahu Thi", the officer promptly replied.
Thanks to _NCW_ for their proposal to remove the limit of 7 years on the presumptions in case of dowry death under section 304-B IPC and making it for complete lifetime of a woman.
I would also like to thank the Ministry for Women and Child Welfare (WCD) for all its care. Its support and care for the earning opportunities for the lawyers, policemen and brokers at CAW cells.
Regards,
Neeraj Aggarwal
Best Regards,
Stand and die in your own strength; if there is any sin in the world, it is weakness; avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is death. - Swami Vivekananda
Reference:
· YouTube - False dowry death case - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eYxWCwQDR0
On 7/10/08, Rohitwrote:
Teena Thacker Posted online: Thursday, July 10, 2008 at 2222 hrs
New Delhi, July 9: In a significant broadening of the Dowry
Prohibition Act, the Ministry of Women and Child Development is
planning to change the legislation so that the unnatural death of a
woman at any stage of her marriage is covered by it.
Right now, unnatural death of a woman within seven years of her
marriage is construed as a dowry death, attracting punishment under
Section 304(B).
There should not be any limit; unnatural death of a woman at any
stage should be considered an offence liable to be punished under 304
(B), says a senior official.
The ministry, which was given suggestions in this regard by the
National Commission of Women (NCW), is proposing this and several
other amendments to the dowry Act. The ministry officials will meet
this month to discuss the changes.
While expanding the limit of the cases, which can be brought under
the purview of the dowry Act, the ministry is also considering a
major relief to the groom's family by saying that arrests of the
immediate family members not be made till they are proved guilty.
At present, the police can arrest the family of the groom on the
basis of verbal accusations made by the girl. We are looking at the
evidence taken by the police officials while making arrests, added
the official.
According to figures available with the ministry, about 1.2 lakh
women (relatives of husbands) have been arrested under the Act. Since
it is a non-bailable offence, officials suspect it has been largely
misused. Last month, various NGOs representing men made presentations
to the ministry, alleging that laws for protecting women like the
anti-dowry legislation and the Domestic Violence Act are violative of
their fundamental rights. Their plea to scrap the legislation
prompted the ministry to review the Act.
While demanding dowry is a crime, even those agreeing to it from now
on may face a strict punishment. The law should be the same for both
the parties. There should be punishment for all those accepting and
giving dowry. Why should all those giving dowry be
considered innocent?, an official in the ministry told The Indian
Express.
The NCW, in its radical suggestions, has also asked for enhancing the
minimum punishment for the dowry-related cases. The ministry is also
likely to consider this.
The NCW has also suggested that a professional counselor talk to both
the parties rather than the police, which is not a competent
authority to deal with matrimonial discords.
Delhi, the capital of dowry deaths
According to the recent NCRB 2006 figures, dowry death figures in
Delhi reveal the dismal state of women in the city. According to the
figures there were 120 reported dowry deaths which occurred in 2006,
higher than other mega cities.
A 1997 report claimed that at least 5,000 women die each year because
of dowry deaths, and at least a dozen die each day in `kitchen
fires', thought to be intentional.
According to surveys, the epicentre of the problem of bride-burning
and other forms of dowry-related violence on women is Delhi, western
and central Uttar Pradesh (cities such as Kanpur, Lucknow, and Agra
have witnessed the highest number of deaths), and places adjoining
Delhi (Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab).
The other side of the picture
According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), more than
6,000 dowry related cases are registered on an average annually. Of
these cases, according to Save Family Foundation, an NGO, 65 per cent
of cases are reportedly false. The amendments in the Act are much
needed. During the suicide cases by wife the whole family is
immediately arrested. Though it is a different matter that every year
more men commit suicide then women. There is a dire need to balance
the law, says Swarup Sarkar, one of the founder members of Save
Family Foundation.
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If you had followed how this news unfolded, you would have realised how the deceased girl's parents changed their statement(which they gave on national TV!) each day as more efidence against their accusations against the deceased girl's husband(alleging that his torture and divorce proceedings caused the suicide!, and hence he should be booked for dowry death and abbetting suicide, etc.- all these accusations for extorting money from the husband thus trapped under legal terrorism)
Whereas later it was evident, after due investigations , that the suicide was mainly due to some issues between her and her paramour and colleague(a pilot with the same airline where she was an air-hostess!)
This is a typical-false dowry death allegation.
See below for more details on other similar false allegations
______________________________________
A reply I had sent to many of our parlamentarians, in response to the news: http://www.indianexpress.com/story/333522.htm (about amending dowry death- 304B section of IPC), read on...
*********************
More insensibilities in law, more oppression of innocents - is that what the authorities want?!!!
This is what I posted in one of the forums in Orkut, on the subject of false dowry death cases (http://www.orkut.co.in/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=21840&tid=5220560175977738062&na=2&nst=4)
**********Quote***********
what I really meant is that the wife dies for some reason other than creulty by hubby, but the earlier vengeance and ill-will makes the girls parents to accuse the hubby for 'dowry death'. You should really see the case briefs in http://victims-of-law.blogspot.com/ (there are 1000s, but some of them are about guys accused of killing their wives)
U r in luck, I got the prime example i had in mind, to make this destructive and 'impossible' trend of "making hay when your daughter is dead" syndrome!. See: http://498a.blogspot.com/2008/05/y-p-singh-lucknow-up.html .
I searched and found more in this blog: http://498a.blogspot.com/search?q=dowry+death and http://498a.blogspot.com/search?q=304b
These stories written in blood will blow ur mind and ur belief on some kinda humans too!
**********Un-Quote***********
The recent police circulars by Delhi Police, which are a relief from rampant misuse and shoddy implementation of law by police, also is being objected by Ms.Girija Vyas, while these circulars are following the various supreme court and state high court judgements and directions therein, as mentioned below
Pls refer to two TV programs which was telecasted in CNN-IBN "Delhi moves to save men from fake dowry cases": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90fT42OfemI, a similar program on NDTV can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF596wNcpbA.
There are now 4 police circulars(3 in delhi and 1 in hyderabad) and one High court(Chennai) order which is on similar lines, and which insists that the Police do not arrest innocent husbands and their relatives on mere false complaints(alleging cruelty and harassment) by their vexatious wives, for oblique motives(money, control, vengeance, etc). These directives insist on an investigation before any arrests(this would be sounding ridiculous to many readers of non-Indian origin, but this is a fact of life for many Indians living in India and also abroad!)
This is apart from the 1994 SC judgement(Joginder Vs State of UP) and the allahadbad HC judgement giving more guidelines for arrest and investigation.
See all these details and what you do to stop illegal actions and arrests against you, in this post: http://at498a.blogspot.com/2008/04/arrest-guidelines-in-case-of.html
Warm Regards,
Gokul, http://gokul.page.to, 9821414336(Mumbai)
Editor - www.siftimes.com , Director- www.pifngo.info
Protect Indian Family: "For Family Harmony.. Against Legal Terrorism"
swarup sarkar
This is the link:
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/333522.html
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/333522.htm
Goverment should not scruble under Pressure of NCW and spoil the common man's life. If such law made, all will became wife killers . If you kill you wife then also you go to jail and if you do not kill your wife then also you go to jail.. what is this ?
Such law will increse the spouse muder more and more , request WCD to use the common sense.
Our View as under :
Dowry death misuse: A Justice Saldhana judgment
Using Six sigma statistics there is no death difference between suicide of married women and never married women so the presumption of dowry death has to be dropped of course the minds of NCW has to be examined specialy Ms.Girija Vyas.
IBN7 Debate Viedo1: IBN7 Debate on Dowry LAW Video-1, Video--2, Video-3
Please look in national crime bureau statistics of 2005 and 2006 .
It is illustrative to note what Justice Saldhana said of dowry law misuse on 2003
The Following judgment in 2000(1) Karnataka Law Online starting on Page no 560 is illustrative of the severity of the abuse of the process of law happening in the dowry harassment and section 498a cases
IN the high Court of Karnataka
M.F.Saldhana & M.S. rajendra Prasad JJ
Crl.A. no. 589 of 2003
Decided on 4-9-2003
important excerpts starting from page 562
we need to sound a note of caution that the police and investigating authorities should not improperly and technically jump to the conclusion that merely because death has occurred that ipso facto a criminal offense has been committed . In as many as 44% of these cases prosecution is thoroughly unjustified. Unless there is cogent and convincing evidence and unless there is material to sustain these charges, it would be totally impermissible and completely unjustified to embark upon legal action. The consequences of these charges are extremely grave because the accused husband and invariably family members are placed under arrest. There are serious social and economic repercussions.
end of excerpt :
a little later following excerpt from same judgment
The fact that we do come across considerable number of instances where prosecution was unjustified seems to indicate that in every case of death of young woman or recently married women that prosecution and filing of charge sheet has become automatic. There does not appear to be a proper application of mind at the stage of scrutiny and having regard to this position we direct the concerned authorities to ensure that requirements of the law are correctly and responsibly followed .
Copy to be followed to D.G. (Police)
Further we witness the cases, even when the wife is alive, still the Husbands/husbands mother/sisters send behind the bar years together and after 2 or 3 years we witness the wife is alive and staying with other men. This clearly evident and expose beyond reasonable dought the loop hole of the law , which can be abused even when the wife is alive, then you can understand what can be happen when a women die in accident/suicide/Murder or any other illness.
YouTube - False dowry death case
NCW want each and every death of a wife to be converted to dowry death, so that they can fool the people that dowry death is increasing and demand more and more fund form the government and other sources.
Such loop sided and assumption based law should be immediately changed by our LAW maker and the same to be made gender equal, husband/wife to be replaced by the word spouse, as more than 52000 married man also end their life in un natural death as per crime Bure report itself, but all the husband killers are moving freely in our society.
Let stop this legal terrorism promoted by NCW and their associated organizations, who wants that each and every home more and more litigations, so that their recommended Panel lawyers can earn more and more money by sucking the blood of common people.
In the IPC already the Murder LAW/Attempt to murder law are there and the convection up to hang to death already available, still they want more and more duplication of law to increase more and more litigation and want to send the innocent people behind the bar without any evidence and without any investigation and want to convert each and every death of a wife to a dowry death to fulfill their hidden agenda.
It is a great challenge to our LAW makers, will they surrender to NCW's absurd, ill-minded proposal or do justice to common people and stop this Legal Terrorism in India in the name of so called dowry Laws, which is totally assumption based instead of any evidence based.
Stiffer dowry law may lead to more abuse: Times News
Sub: Babhu bi kabi Saas Hogi- Dowry Death Law Misuse
Mansi, a little 4 years old girl was sitting on laps of her mother, confused but aware that her grandmother had died last night. Her grandmother Mrs. Sahay died after prolonged illness. Besides her husband Mr. Sahay, she left behind a joint family consisting of her three sons, three daughter-in-laws and half a dozen grandchildren. Mr. Sahay is a senior citizen retired from a white color top govt. post.
Suddenly mansi saw 3-4 persons in khaki, talking aggressively to her father and grandfather.
Mansi innocently asked her mother
"Mamma, are they Yamadutas?
If they are, aren't they making a mistake?
Why they are taking away grandpa, its the grandma who actually have died."
Her mother immidiately put a finger on mansi's mouth and whispered in her ear, "They are not Yamadutas my angle, they are policemen."
Police officer: Mr. sahay, you are under arrest on charges of section 304-B.
Mr. Sahay: But we have been married long back and there was not a single dispute in our whole married life. I have a big joint family and we are living happily.
Police officer: You all have to be arrested and the body of the deceased need to be sent for post mortem.
Mr. Sahay: What do you mean by all? She died a natural death.
Police officer: All means, all your sons and daughter-in-laws also.
Then he changed his tone to bollywood style policeman, "Main farz se majboor hun" (i am duty bound, i cant do anything). You all have to come with me, as by law, husband and all her relatives have to be presumed guilty for an offence of dowry death. Are they not your relatives?
Mr. Sahay: But officer, its more than 35 years since our marriage. Arrest, Why?
Police officer: "Kyonki Saas Bhee Kabhi To Bahu Thi", the officer promptly replied.
Thanks to _NCW_ for their proposal to remove the limit of 7 years on the presumptions in case of dowry death under section 304-B IPC and making it for complete lifetime of a woman.
I would also like to thank the Ministry for Women and Child Welfare (WCD) for all its care. Its support and care for the earning opportunities for the lawyers, policemen and brokers at CAW cells.
Regards,
Neeraj Aggarwal
Best Regards,
Stand and die in your own strength; if there is any sin in the world, it is weakness; avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is death. - Swami Vivekananda
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On 7/10/08, Rohit
Teena Thacker Posted online: Thursday, July 10, 2008 at 2222 hrs
New Delhi, July 9: In a significant broadening of the Dowry
Prohibition Act, the Ministry of Women and Child Development is
planning to change the legislation so that the unnatural death of a
woman at any stage of her marriage is covered by it.
Right now, unnatural death of a woman within seven years of her
marriage is construed as a dowry death, attracting punishment under
Section 304(B).
There should not be any limit; unnatural death of a woman at any
stage should be considered an offence liable to be punished under 304
(B), says a senior official.
The ministry, which was given suggestions in this regard by the
National Commission of Women (NCW), is proposing this and several
other amendments to the dowry Act. The ministry officials will meet
this month to discuss the changes.
While expanding the limit of the cases, which can be brought under
the purview of the dowry Act, the ministry is also considering a
major relief to the groom's family by saying that arrests of the
immediate family members not be made till they are proved guilty.
At present, the police can arrest the family of the groom on the
basis of verbal accusations made by the girl. We are looking at the
evidence taken by the police officials while making arrests, added
the official.
According to figures available with the ministry, about 1.2 lakh
women (relatives of husbands) have been arrested under the Act. Since
it is a non-bailable offence, officials suspect it has been largely
misused. Last month, various NGOs representing men made presentations
to the ministry, alleging that laws for protecting women like the
anti-dowry legislation and the Domestic Violence Act are violative of
their fundamental rights. Their plea to scrap the legislation
prompted the ministry to review the Act.
While demanding dowry is a crime, even those agreeing to it from now
on may face a strict punishment. The law should be the same for both
the parties. There should be punishment for all those accepting and
giving dowry. Why should all those giving dowry be
considered innocent?, an official in the ministry told The Indian
Express.
The NCW, in its radical suggestions, has also asked for enhancing the
minimum punishment for the dowry-related cases. The ministry is also
likely to consider this.
The NCW has also suggested that a professional counselor talk to both
the parties rather than the police, which is not a competent
authority to deal with matrimonial discords.
Delhi, the capital of dowry deaths
According to the recent NCRB 2006 figures, dowry death figures in
Delhi reveal the dismal state of women in the city. According to the
figures there were 120 reported dowry deaths which occurred in 2006,
higher than other mega cities.
A 1997 report claimed that at least 5,000 women die each year because
of dowry deaths, and at least a dozen die each day in `kitchen
fires', thought to be intentional.
According to surveys, the epicentre of the problem of bride-burning
and other forms of dowry-related violence on women is Delhi, western
and central Uttar Pradesh (cities such as Kanpur, Lucknow, and Agra
have witnessed the highest number of deaths), and places adjoining
Delhi (Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab).
The other side of the picture
According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), more than
6,000 dowry related cases are registered on an average annually. Of
these cases, according to Save Family Foundation, an NGO, 65 per cent
of cases are reportedly false. The amendments in the Act are much
needed. During the suicide cases by wife the whole family is
immediately arrested. Though it is a different matter that every year
more men commit suicide then women. There is a dire need to balance
the law, says Swarup Sarkar, one of the founder members of Save
Family Foundation.
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What is IPC-498a ? Cognizable: " The accused can be arrested and jailed without warrant or investigation Non-Bailable : "The accused must appear in the court to request bail Non-Compoundable : " The complaint cannot be withdrawn by the petitioner The accused are guilty with women one word, and the burden is on the accused to prove innocence in the courts When an FIR under IPC section 498A (498a) is registered, the accused are automatically arrested and jailed without investigation. The Supreme Court of India has ruled several times that arrest should be an exception, and not a compulsory.
Why is there no penalty for disobeying the Supreme Court's orders? Is it not mental cruelty to subject a person to arrest without investigation or reasonable cause? As per our Study, we found out that, it is custom in india to give support to bride in the form of gold and valuables to support her future life with her husband, as husband take home his wifes Fathers burdon, as family of girl call themself. as long as there are no Problems/cracks in marriage, all goes smoothly.As it is there are problems in every marriage, and olden days women used to manage these silly things in her marriage, but todays modern women is not ready to compromise even pretty issues.
Shoba [Name Changed] says dowry is not an issue, ours was love cum arranged marriage, i know my fathers capacity,and how much he can give, and after marrieage there is not chance takeing any money, so i only told my Husband,that he can take.we happy with that,it helped us to build our Family.we should not take Stridhan as dowry. When we get marry, to make new house, start family we need money,from girl side her father should provide to start family,and man should not demand more than what girls family offer.
Says Priya[Name changed] We are not talking about the dowry deaths or physical injury cases but about dowry harassment cases that require no evidence and can be filed just based on a single word, complaint by the wife. With an estimated 50,000 such accusations per year and an average of 3 members of the husband's family implicated in each of these 498a cases, about 150,000 people are directly affected by these false accusations.
Latest Statistics Published on IBN-CNN. *In 2004, 58,319 dowry cases were registered *1,34,757 men were arrested *47,828 cases have reached the chargesheet stage *10,491 dowry cases were not chargesheeted as they were based on frivolous ground. *However, 5,739 men have been convicted but more than four times that number have been acquitted (24,127) The controversial section not only covers dowry, but a wide spectrum of incidents including cruelty, causing injury and danger to mental or physical health. [Source: http://www.ibnlive.com/news/tortured-hubbies-victims-of-498a/27446-3.html] as on June 30 2005 are those under sections 498 and 498(A). In the first six months this year, 3801 new cases under just these two sections were instituted. Thanks to the awareness levels among women, many more are approaching the courts today than before. Consider this against the number of cases that are disposed. They are only 2432 cases. Of them, only 164 cases led to convictions. 1449 cases ended in acquittal with the aggrieved women considering further appeals. [source :http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/full_story.php?content_id=79802]
This poorly formulated law is inviting unscrupulous women to file false cases, and causing the imprisonment of innocent husband and his Family without investigation. These innocent people undergo stigmatization and hardship even before a trial in the court of law which leads to emotional, physical and financial burdon. Some of the falsely accused have committed suicide after being jailed, unable to bear the social consequences. Result of False Accusation. As per Recent Report From Ahmedabad, Rajesh hasmukh Desai commited suicide, He was charged with 498A Falsly.If a women dies in any circumtenses, Authority by default Police will arrest man, but in this case police did not took any action nor they questioned his wife, nor took any action.
A study by Professor K. Nagaraj, senior economist at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) The distribution of suicides by marital status reveals some interesting patterns. The rates do not vary much between the sexes for the never married. Among those currently married, while the rate for males is about 17 per 100,000 persons, the rate for females is 11.4 per 100,000. Among those widowed, while the rate for males is 21 per 100,000 persons, the rate for females is also significantly lower, at 6.6 per 100,000. However, among divorced males the suicide rate is 164 per 100,000 persons, but even in this class, among females the rate is only 63 per 100,000. While the suicide rate for separated men is about 167, for females it is only 41 per 100,000 persons. [Source: http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1821/18210960.htm] Despite the recommendations of the Supreme Court of India and Justice Malimath Committee that the legislative arm should modify the laws such that the innocent are protected, the suggested amendment to the law has been largely ignored.
Unconstrained, this social evil is threating the foundaton of the Indian Family system. Why do people misuse IPC 498a? Legal Extortion: " When marriage is on the brink of Divorce, she find no other weapon to harass husband than 498A Pre/extra marital Affairs :" She marries to satisfy her parents, without disclosing her fast,when husband find out she has no option than file dowry case to blackmail him,same applies to extra marital affairs too. Domination :" Wife wants the husband to abandon his parents and siblings, and have total control over his finances and social behavior, including his life-style Custody - Deny the father and his family access to their child(ren). Fraudulent Marriages - Many time girls family will not disclose actual facts of thier daughter,that leads to divorce,then legal extortion follows. In-Laws - When modern women is unable to adjust with her In Laws, to dominate her husband and make him dance as she says she goes for dowry case. Consider a person who works extremely hard to make his career. Then he marry a wolf who drags him to court. There he is bound to loose all dignity, children custody and above all 50% of his income. He is forced out of family, money and all. Using his money all along wolf teaches to the child that father was bad. Despite feeding the child on Fathers' money. He has nothing to look at when he grows old. And Indian judicial system is just not meant for any justice. This is nothing but sure cruelty. Extreme disastor. And unending mental trauma.
Apart from this I've seen men bieng ditched by various girls before marriage. In cities it is common that girl have many boyfriends. And they choose the richest among them for marriage. Rest are ditched. And few eaker among them commit suicide. Says Amit Agarwal a Victim of 498A. Nearly five crore married women in India are victims of domestic violence (DV). Only 0.1 percent (1 out of 1000 DV cases) of these are being reported. Out of 100 cases that are ordered for investigation under 498A, only in 2 cases the accused get convicted.
People generally use this law to facilitate a divorce. And often, it is the lawyers who advise the women to implicate their in-laws under the provisions of this Act, says Shantosh Singh, chairperson of Women Welfare Counseling Cell. Often, the number of items given in dowry is inflated to claim a high settlement amount. There are only 10 per cent cases based on truth, and people usually come to us and ask specifically to mention the element of dowry in their divorce petitions, says Amrikh Singh Kalra, advocate at Punjab and Haryana High Court. Women mis(using) laws to get even ? NEW DELHI, Oct 18 (PTI) "Laws against violence at home may or may not have come to the rescue of battered women, but some of them have been accused of abusing them to get an easy divorce or settle other little domestic disputes. [Souce:http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99oct19/nation.htm#7 ] According to the available statistical information from the National Crime Records Bureau and information available from NGOs working with victims of violence, there is a general tendency to avoid seeking redressal among the victims of domestic violence. However, when a victim of domestic violence seeks help from any of the agencies, be it family, friends, NGOs, or lawyers, before registering a complaint, at each stage she is asked to reconcile the matter or to put up with the situation. Reconciliation in 498A cases takes place at every stage including the police station, Crime Against Women Cells and courts. We found that in five cases filed under Section 498A the parties settled the matter after agreeing on maintenance and divorce. In a majority of the cases before a victim filed the complaint under Section 498A, the minimum period she suffered physical and mental torture, was for about three years. The trial process is quite lengthy and the proportion of pending cases is quiet high (out of the 40 cases based on victims' interviews which went for trial in court, 28 cases are still pending). In the cases tracked, the normal trial period was between five to ten years. " It was found that it was difficult to prove physical and mental torture. In all the eight cases in which the accused were acquitted, the victims were found to have suffered physical and mental torture, but as there was not enough evidence to prove torture, the accused were let off. The cases where the accused were convicted had been filed under Section 498A along with section 304B and 302, which are applicable after the death of the victim. There were no convictions in any of the cases registered only under Section 498A. It has been found that out of 30 cases there is not a single case where the accused has been convicted only under Section 498A. The accused have been acquitted (11 cases) by the court where the prosecutor failed to provide evidentiary proof of cruelty, mainly mental, inflicted on the victim as provided under Section 498A IPC.
The judicial authorities of India, in number of landmark judgments, have taken a serious view of the growing tendency to falsely implicate innocent members of the husband's family in dowry cases. Describing misuse of IPC-498a law as legal terrorism, the Supreme Court said no one could be allowed to unleash frivolous proceedings on this count as the provisions of Section 498a is intended to be used a shield not as an assassin's weapon. The stringent dowry laws, meant to deter dowry-seekers, are being increasingly misused by the very people they are meant to protect. The last three years have seen a steep rise in the number of cases of harassment for dowry. [Source: http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=170603.] Only one out of six dowry complaints genuine [ source : http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041013/cth1.htm] Most of the time its burgaining tool for women when husband finds her Infidelity. adulterous women were responsible for divorces in every 3rd case. [Source :http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1551427,000600010004.htm]
There are many heart-rending stories of innocent families being arrested without investigation and put in judicial custody. While IPC 498a is supposed to be a law to protect women, ironically it harms many more women. For every male accused of IPC 498a, there is at least one woman (his mother or sister) who is implicated in a crime that never occurred or they never stayed together. If there are more women in the family they too are accused irrespective of their age, health condition, marital status or their physical proximity to the complainant. There are many Reports, married sisters of husband,even they are pregnent or with small baby in hands are jailed without any investigations.or The entire family is ruthlessly arrested without investigation and there are no words to describe the financial hardship and emotional trauma that they have to endure. Children suffer whether they are jailed along with their mothers or are separated from them during that time. Another striking feature of these victim stories is that the complainants, in collaboration with the police make sure that the arrests are strategically planned to harass and demoralize the accused, to make them succumb to the fear of being imprisoned and to extract huge amounts of money thereafter.
Here is list of few Victims are harassed for many years,without rays of hope to get Justice. http://mynation.net/db. Everyone knows there are loopholes in 498A, and media reports, Judges warn and Politician admit Openly; An offence has been committed by the accused upon the sole testimony of the woman alleging abuse. Given that lying in court has never been taken seriously enough to invoke punishment, laws which presume guilt even before the trial has begun are prone to great misuse. 98% misuse is ok Says Minister Renuka chowdrey [Source : http://www.ibnlive.com/news/ill-empower-women-chowdhury/26051-3-0.html] Even there is 98% misuse, whay not there is any Change....? Because it is not only against husband but his whole Family. The Western funded Supporter of this law, determined to ruin family system of India and sabotage Indian Society. For : http://mynation.net Source : http://mynation.net/498a.study-report.htm
What is IPC-498a ? Cognizable: " The accused can be arrested and jailed without warrant or investigation Non-Bailable : "The accused must appear in the court to request bail Non-Compoundable : " The complaint cannot be withdrawn by the petitioner The accused are guilty with women one word, and the burden is on the accused to prove innocence in the courts When an FIR under IPC section 498A (498a) is registered, the accused are automatically arrested and jailed without investigation. The Supreme Court of India has ruled several times that arrest should be an exception, and not a compulsory.
Why is there no penalty for disobeying the Supreme Court's orders? Is it not mental cruelty to subject a person to arrest without investigation or reasonable cause? As per our Study, we found out that, it is custom in india to give support to bride in the form of gold and valuables to support her future life with her husband, as husband take home his wifes Fathers burdon, as family of girl call themself. as long as there are no Problems/cracks in marriage, all goes smoothly.As it is there are problems in every marriage, and olden days women used to manage these silly things in her marriage, but todays modern women is not ready to compromise even pretty issues.
Shoba [Name Changed] says dowry is not an issue, ours was love cum arranged marriage, i know my fathers capacity,and how much he can give, and after marrieage there is not chance takeing any money, so i only told my Husband,that he can take.we happy with that,it helped us to build our Family.we should not take Stridhan as dowry. When we get marry, to make new house, start family we need money,from girl side her father should provide to start family,and man should not demand more than what girls family offer.
Says Priya[Name changed] We are not talking about the dowry deaths or physical injury cases but about dowry harassment cases that require no evidence and can be filed just based on a single word, complaint by the wife. With an estimated 50,000 such accusations per year and an average of 3 members of the husband's family implicated in each of these 498a cases, about 150,000 people are directly affected by these false accusations.
Latest Statistics Published on IBN-CNN. *In 2004, 58,319 dowry cases were registered *1,34,757 men were arrested *47,828 cases have reached the chargesheet stage *10,491 dowry cases were not chargesheeted as they were based on frivolous ground. *However, 5,739 men have been convicted but more than four times that number have been acquitted (24,127) The controversial section not only covers dowry, but a wide spectrum of incidents including cruelty, causing injury and danger to mental or physical health. [Source: http://www.ibnlive.com/news/tortured-hubbies-victims-of-498a/27446-3.html] as on June 30 2005 are those under sections 498 and 498(A). In the first six months this year, 3801 new cases under just these two sections were instituted. Thanks to the awareness levels among women, many more are approaching the courts today than before. Consider this against the number of cases that are disposed. They are only 2432 cases. Of them, only 164 cases led to convictions. 1449 cases ended in acquittal with the aggrieved women considering further appeals. [source :http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/full_story.php?content_id=79802]
This poorly formulated law is inviting unscrupulous women to file false cases, and causing the imprisonment of innocent husband and his Family without investigation. These innocent people undergo stigmatization and hardship even before a trial in the court of law which leads to emotional, physical and financial burdon. Some of the falsely accused have committed suicide after being jailed, unable to bear the social consequences. Result of False Accusation. As per Recent Report From Ahmedabad, Rajesh hasmukh Desai commited suicide, He was charged with 498A Falsly.If a women dies in any circumtenses, Authority by default Police will arrest man, but in this case police did not took any action nor they questioned his wife, nor took any action.
A study by Professor K. Nagaraj, senior economist at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) The distribution of suicides by marital status reveals some interesting patterns. The rates do not vary much between the sexes for the never married. Among those currently married, while the rate for males is about 17 per 100,000 persons, the rate for females is 11.4 per 100,000. Among those widowed, while the rate for males is 21 per 100,000 persons, the rate for females is also significantly lower, at 6.6 per 100,000. However, among divorced males the suicide rate is 164 per 100,000 persons, but even in this class, among females the rate is only 63 per 100,000. While the suicide rate for separated men is about 167, for females it is only 41 per 100,000 persons. [Source: http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1821/18210960.htm] Despite the recommendations of the Supreme Court of India and Justice Malimath Committee that the legislative arm should modify the laws such that the innocent are protected, the suggested amendment to the law has been largely ignored.
Unconstrained, this social evil is threating the foundaton of the Indian Family system. Why do people misuse IPC 498a? Legal Extortion: " When marriage is on the brink of Divorce, she find no other weapon to harass husband than 498A Pre/extra marital Affairs :" She marries to satisfy her parents, without disclosing her fast,when husband find out she has no option than file dowry case to blackmail him,same applies to extra marital affairs too. Domination :" Wife wants the husband to abandon his parents and siblings, and have total control over his finances and social behavior, including his life-style Custody - Deny the father and his family access to their child(ren). Fraudulent Marriages - Many time girls family will not disclose actual facts of thier daughter,that leads to divorce,then legal extortion follows. In-Laws - When modern women is unable to adjust with her In Laws, to dominate her husband and make him dance as she says she goes for dowry case. Consider a person who works extremely hard to make his career. Then he marry a wolf who drags him to court. There he is bound to loose all dignity, children custody and above all 50% of his income. He is forced out of family, money and all. Using his money all along wolf teaches to the child that father was bad. Despite feeding the child on Fathers' money. He has nothing to look at when he grows old. And Indian judicial system is just not meant for any justice. This is nothing but sure cruelty. Extreme disastor. And unending mental trauma.
Apart from this I've seen men bieng ditched by various girls before marriage. In cities it is common that girl have many boyfriends. And they choose the richest among them for marriage. Rest are ditched. And few eaker among them commit suicide. Says Amit Agarwal a Victim of 498A. Nearly five crore married women in India are victims of domestic violence (DV). Only 0.1 percent (1 out of 1000 DV cases) of these are being reported. Out of 100 cases that are ordered for investigation under 498A, only in 2 cases the accused get convicted.
People generally use this law to facilitate a divorce. And often, it is the lawyers who advise the women to implicate their in-laws under the provisions of this Act, says Shantosh Singh, chairperson of Women Welfare Counseling Cell. Often, the number of items given in dowry is inflated to claim a high settlement amount. There are only 10 per cent cases based on truth, and people usually come to us and ask specifically to mention the element of dowry in their divorce petitions, says Amrikh Singh Kalra, advocate at Punjab and Haryana High Court. Women mis(using) laws to get even ? NEW DELHI, Oct 18 (PTI) "Laws against violence at home may or may not have come to the rescue of battered women, but some of them have been accused of abusing them to get an easy divorce or settle other little domestic disputes. [Souce:http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99oct19/nation.htm#7 ] According to the available statistical information from the National Crime Records Bureau and information available from NGOs working with victims of violence, there is a general tendency to avoid seeking redressal among the victims of domestic violence. However, when a victim of domestic violence seeks help from any of the agencies, be it family, friends, NGOs, or lawyers, before registering a complaint, at each stage she is asked to reconcile the matter or to put up with the situation. Reconciliation in 498A cases takes place at every stage including the police station, Crime Against Women Cells and courts. We found that in five cases filed under Section 498A the parties settled the matter after agreeing on maintenance and divorce. In a majority of the cases before a victim filed the complaint under Section 498A, the minimum period she suffered physical and mental torture, was for about three years. The trial process is quite lengthy and the proportion of pending cases is quiet high (out of the 40 cases based on victims' interviews which went for trial in court, 28 cases are still pending). In the cases tracked, the normal trial period was between five to ten years. " It was found that it was difficult to prove physical and mental torture. In all the eight cases in which the accused were acquitted, the victims were found to have suffered physical and mental torture, but as there was not enough evidence to prove torture, the accused were let off. The cases where the accused were convicted had been filed under Section 498A along with section 304B and 302, which are applicable after the death of the victim. There were no convictions in any of the cases registered only under Section 498A. It has been found that out of 30 cases there is not a single case where the accused has been convicted only under Section 498A. The accused have been acquitted (11 cases) by the court where the prosecutor failed to provide evidentiary proof of cruelty, mainly mental, inflicted on the victim as provided under Section 498A IPC.
The judicial authorities of India, in number of landmark judgments, have taken a serious view of the growing tendency to falsely implicate innocent members of the husband's family in dowry cases. Describing misuse of IPC-498a law as legal terrorism, the Supreme Court said no one could be allowed to unleash frivolous proceedings on this count as the provisions of Section 498a is intended to be used a shield not as an assassin's weapon. The stringent dowry laws, meant to deter dowry-seekers, are being increasingly misused by the very people they are meant to protect. The last three years have seen a steep rise in the number of cases of harassment for dowry. [Source: http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=170603.] Only one out of six dowry complaints genuine [ source : http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041013/cth1.htm] Most of the time its burgaining tool for women when husband finds her Infidelity. adulterous women were responsible for divorces in every 3rd case. [Source :http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1551427,000600010004.htm]
There are many heart-rending stories of innocent families being arrested without investigation and put in judicial custody. While IPC 498a is supposed to be a law to protect women, ironically it harms many more women. For every male accused of IPC 498a, there is at least one woman (his mother or sister) who is implicated in a crime that never occurred or they never stayed together. If there are more women in the family they too are accused irrespective of their age, health condition, marital status or their physical proximity to the complainant. There are many Reports, married sisters of husband,even they are pregnent or with small baby in hands are jailed without any investigations.or The entire family is ruthlessly arrested without investigation and there are no words to describe the financial hardship and emotional trauma that they have to endure. Children suffer whether they are jailed along with their mothers or are separated from them during that time. Another striking feature of these victim stories is that the complainants, in collaboration with the police make sure that the arrests are strategically planned to harass and demoralize the accused, to make them succumb to the fear of being imprisoned and to extract huge amounts of money thereafter.
Here is list of few Victims are harassed for many years,without rays of hope to get Justice. http://mynation.net/db. Everyone knows there are loopholes in 498A, and media reports, Judges warn and Politician admit Openly; An offence has been committed by the accused upon the sole testimony of the woman alleging abuse. Given that lying in court has never been taken seriously enough to invoke punishment, laws which presume guilt even before the trial has begun are prone to great misuse. 98% misuse is ok Says Minister Renuka chowdrey [Source : http://www.ibnlive.com/news/ill-empower-women-chowdhury/26051-3-0.html] Even there is 98% misuse, whay not there is any Change....? Because it is not only against husband but his whole Family. The Western funded Supporter of this law, determined to ruin family system of India and sabotage Indian Society. For : http://mynation.net Source : http://mynation.net/498a.study-report.htm
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