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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Man strips to get PF money in Vadodara

VADODARA: A 41-year-old man, tired of running from pillar to post for his provident fund (PF), took Gandhigiri to new heights on Wednesday morning. Just like a character in Lage Raho Munnabhai, he stripped in the PF office at Akota to register his protest. The ploy worked. Senior officials have also suspended a clerk for delays and promised him the money before April 15.

Indravadan Patel had been coming from Atali village to the PF office since January for his Rs 50,000. But officials would ask him to come back another day with one document or another. Patel claimed that an employee had asked for Rs 1,000 bribe which he paid after borrowing from a friend.

"When I came to submit a form to redeem the money on January 1, I was asked to submit birth certificates of my sons. I submitted them on January 3 and was assured that I would get the money on February 2," said an agitated Patel, who worked for nine years in a private firm in Karjan that shut down last year.

"On February 22, my application was rejected. It was sent back to the company which revised the form and returned it to the PF office again. I was then asked to submit my wife's birth certificate, bank statement and experience certificate." On Tuesday evening he was told to come on April 10. By then, Patel had lost his patience. He came to the PF office on Wednesday and stripped down to his underwear.

"I had to sell my wife's jewellery and borrow money to sustain my family. These people have no heart." He admitted that he was not only inspired by Munnabhai but also Pooja Chauhan, the woman in Rajkot who had stripped and walked the streets in Rajkot to protest.

The police have booked him for indecency in public but Patel has filed a police complaint against PF officials for mental harassment. Regional PF officer MP Sinha immediately suspended clerk Nagendra Kumar. "His claim is due for settlement before April 15. I will ensure that he gets his dues," he said.





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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

judge Chandiwal looked visibly upset

sab natak,
sab maya
sab paisa
sab moh

yeh humara samaj
yeh apni zindagi
yeh inka dhanda
yeh mere muskorahat

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Trace_Kasliwal_victim_in_4_weeks/articleshow/2896590.cmsOn hearing this judge Chandiwal looked visibly upset. He said, "How can the police not provide any protection to the victim when the high court itself had spoken of it while granting bail to the accused? Why have the police not followed the orders, please explain it to me

Eve-teaser cop thrashed, suspended

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Eve-teaser_cop_thrashed_suspended/articleshow/2896583.cms
LUCKNOW: Passing a lewd remark at a young girl proved costly for a tipsy constable who was first hit by the victim herself and then left to face the ire of the onlookers who gathered at the scene in Janpath Market area of Hazratganj on Monday evening. The constable was then handed over to the police. Found drunk on duty, the constable was subsequently put under suspension and an inquiry was ordered into the allegations levelled by the victim who refused to get a formal FIR registered against the accused. Eye-witnesses told mediapersons that it was around 8 pm when a girl passing by the parking slot in Janpath Market suddenly stopped before a police constable in uniform. "Even before we could understand what was happening, the girl took off her sandals and attacked the khaki clad before she was stopped by the onlookers. When the girl revealed that the constable had not only passed lewd remarks at her but also tried to get physical, the mob turned against the cop," said an attendant of the parking slot. Identifying himself as Mohd Abbas posted at the local Hazratganj police station, the constable tried to explain that he was innocent. In the process, however, it was established that he was heavily drunk. This left the mob agitated. The constable was then thoroughly beaten up by the mob before some other policemen on duty in the area intervened. Talking to TOI, senior superintendent of police (SSP) Akhil Kumar said, "The complaint was about the constable's misconduct and he has been suspended as the charges levelled against him were found to be true." The Janpath incident is not the only one to tarnish the image of the local police. Monday proved to be a bad day for the police otherwise also as two more cops were suspended, taking the total number of cops punished in March to 28. The other two to be suspended were Ram Babu and Uday Pal Singh, both were deployed in Hazratganj police circle.

Haryana approves Marriage Bill

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Haryana_approves_Marriage_Bill_/articleshow/2899991.cms

CHANDIGARH: Amidst suggestions of bringing down the marriageable age for boys from 21 to 18 years, the Haryana Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday approved the Haryana Compulsory Registration of Marriages Bill, 2008, that was introduced by parliamentary affairs minister Randeep Singh Surjewala during legislative business hours of the Budget session. The assembly also passed the Punjab Agriculture Produce Markets (Haryana amendment) Bill. Putting forth his viewpoint, INLD MLA Dr Sushil Indora not only demanded the lowering of age for boys, but also urged the speaker for special incentives or provisions for promoting inter-caste marriages. "There should be some social security for youths as well," suggested Indora. Adding to that, Naresh Malik, a Congress MLA said, "This is certainly a good move. If voting age can be 18, then why can’t one marry at that age?" While Radhey Shyam Sharma was the third MLA who suggested bringing down marriageable age, finance minister Birender Singh informed, "It’s for the Centre to decide on the issue and leaders are seriously working towards it. We will follow whatever the Centre suggests." INLD MLAs, headed by supremo Om Prakash Chautala, staged yet another walkout after heated arguments with speaker Dr RS Kadian over water crisis in Gurgaon.
PRESS RELEASE - Dharna in Pune City on 29th March demanding Men’s Welfare Ministry
Posted by mynation on March 26th, 2008
PRESS RELEASE
In association with Rakshak Foundation and MyNation Foundation
Misuse of anti-dowry laws and other woman-protection laws has now become a well recognized problem in India. Increasing number of aged parents, sisters, pregnant women and even little children in the husband’s family are falsely accused and arrested under these inhumane laws, and find themselves defenseless against the systematic harassment unleashed thereafter by the state sponsored institutions.
To protest against this outrageous and horrific legal terrorism sponsored by the state and its institutions Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF) will conduct a protest On Saturday, 29th March 2008, demanding the establishment of Men’s Welfare ministry and National Commission for Men (NCM). People from all walks of life including Software engineers, doctors, drivers and plumbers will participate in this protest. Azim Premji, CEO of Wipro, who faced a false and frivolous Domestic violence case by wife of an employee of Wipro, has also been invited to the protest. In addition, several reputed lawyers from Pune city have been invited and are expected to attend the event.
The location of the Protest will be in front of Shivaji Nagar Court, Gate # 1 and the time of the protest is from 11:00am till 2:00pm. About 150 men, women, elders and children are expected to participate in the protest. Most of them are scientists, NRIs, Software Engineers, Doctors, Lawyers and Business persons. The protests will be held every month in different parts of India till Indian parliament amends the laws to “stop legal terrorism” and makes all the laws “gender neutral” and “crime based”. A series of protests have been conducted in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Lucknow in the last three months for the same purpose by respective chapters of Save Indian Family Foundation.
Over the years, various responsible agencies including Indian Judiciary have stressed on the need for amending these atrocious laws. The World Health Organization identified misuse of IPC Section 498A as the prominent reason for elder abuse in India. The Supreme Court of India has described the misuse of IPC Section 498A as ‘Legal Terrorism’, and stressed that the law must be amended in order to protect the innocent, and to ensure justice to the genuinely aggrieved. Rational and responsible citizens from all over the country and abroad have repeatedly warned that these laws in their present form are detrimental to family harmony, and left unchecked, these laws have enormous potential to shatter marital and family stability in years to come.
While ordinary law-abiding men, along with women, senior citizens and children, are being summarily arrested and ruthlessly incarcerated on false charges of dowry harassment every day, the Government has not raised a finger yet. It was not until the Union Minister for Human Resources Development (Mr. Arjun Singh) was accused of dowry harassment that Smt. Renuka Chaudhary (Union Minister for Women welfare) finally acknowledged the misuse of anti-dowry laws in public. What is deeply agonizing to us is that contrary to the way common men and women are arrested immediately and suspended from their jobs, the Government is according special concessions to the HRD Minister Mr. Arjun singh who is not arrested till date or has been suspended from his job yet, thereby demonstrating that the otherwise brutal anti-dowry laws do not apply equally to all citizens of India. In addition, Union Minister for Coal Mines (Mr. Dasari Narayan Rao) who faces dowry harassment charges by his daughter-in-law is also not arrested or suspended from his job yet violating the norm followed for common citizens.
Today, men and women in his family are facing a lot of issues due to lack of protection to men according to law from extortion, dowry harassment (of men), domestic violence and economic abuse. According to National Crime Records Bureau, in every 10 minutes a husband is committing suicide in India due to domestic violence and financial abuse by wife and her family. About 90,000 innocent women were arrested in the last four years on false dowry harassment cases alone. The grim statistics from National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) speaks volumes about the systematic abuse of men in India.
The current Domestic Violence act (DV act 2006) was drafted by divorced women lawyers, whose expertise on 1st principle of law making and justice is questionable. Some of their key members are unable to understand that words police, bail, jail, bonds have no place in DV act which is supposed to be civil law. The current Domestic violence Act suffers from too many maladies including the fact that the definition is wrong, procedures are wrong and the relief is wrong. There have been many instances wherein violent and abusive women have got their way not to mention the fact that under the law men have no rights or protection from any kind of abuse. The law is used grab the property and wealth created by Elderly People out of their retirement funds and force them out of their own homes to live in temples and gurudwaras. This has removed the peaceful residency rights of elderly people from their own hard earned homes and unleashed “legal violence” on elderly. The Supreme Court of India has termed the DV Act as a badly drafted law, which can lead to “social chaos”.
That the Dowry law and Section 498a of IPC are being heavily misused is no longer in question. As per National Crime Records Bureau (2005) more than 98% of the dowry harassment cases are false. The judges have spoken. Justice Malimath Committee has already recommended the law to be made bailable. Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice Seema of Supreme Court have already spoken in anguish about it and termed the misuse of Section 498a as “legal Terrorism”. They also urged the legislature/parliament to make provisions to stop misuse of the Law. The Indian parliament has ignored this judgment and repeated requests by Supreme Court to stop misuse of dowry law for last 2 years for reasons best known to them.
The judgments denouncing the legal terrorism are too numerous. Considering families as “guilty till proven innocent” is against the cardinal principles of natural justice.
The impact of the legal terrorism is enormous:
In every 6 minutes an innocent is arrested.
In every 30 minutes an innocent woman is arrested.
In every 2 hours an innocent elderly is arrested
In every day an innocent child and a pregnant women are arrested
Source: National Crime Records Bureau 2005
Thousands of men are forcibly separated from own their children if there are any differences between the couple. Thousands of children today are living as fatherless children as they are forcibly disconnected from their fathers. As a result, the suicide rate of Indian Men is increasing at a rapid rate. At present, about 73000 men commit suicide out of 113,000 over all suicides in India every year. The Married men’s suicide is extremely high (52483 suicides) and at least 24000 married men commit suicide directly due to domestic violence by wives and till date there is no law to save them (source : National Crime Bureau). Recent suicides and suicide notes left by Late Mr. Pushkar Singh (Lucknow) and Late Mr. Amit Budhiraja (Bangalore) where they have explicitly mentioned the threats of false dowry cases for their suicide, point to the terrible systematic abuse driving innocent people to commit suicide due to lack of any other option.
The contribution and sacrifices that men make to society with commitment and shear hard work are often neglected. Slapping Men by women is considered a fashion and is encouraged in TV commercials, TV Serials and in Movies, where as if a man slaps a woman then it is considered as worst form of domestic assault and a hue and cry is raised. It has become a fashion to abuse men and to portray them in bad light.
Save Indian Family Foundation also demands a commission for Men Issues. When there can be commissions and ministries for women, children, minorities and even Animals, why there can not be a Men’s Welfare Ministry and National Commission for Men (NCM)? After all, it is the Men who work in most hazardous and difficult environments like working as a Coolie, a rickshaw puller, a fire fighter, a soldier or garbage cleaner. In every 10 minutes a married man commits suicide in India. Life expectancy of men is lesser than women. The tax money paid by men contributes to 84% of all funds to government and it is appalling that this same money given by them is used to abuse, harass and torture those very people who contribute this money to run the government and society.
Some of the demands by Save Indian Family Foundation:
That 498a (Dowry law), DV act 2006 and Dowry act be made gender neutral. All laws must be crime based and not based on religion, caste or gender as it is against the fundamental principles of humanity. A murder committed by woman is no less a crime than a murder committed by man. Slapping husband is as heinous as slapping wife and hence both must invite equal punishment by amending Domestic Violence Act (DV act 2006). Gifts given by husband during or after marriage to wife or any of her family members must be treated as dowry given by husband to wife and must be treated as his property to be returned to his family in the event of his un-natural death.
Set up Men’s welfare ministry and National Commission for Men to reduce the alarming number of 73,000 men suicide per year. In comparison, married women suicide rate is just 26,000 per year.
Senior citizens in this country have no security or protection in their old age due to the abuse of these gender biased laws and are mercilessly thrown out of their own homes and forced to run around courts. We want senior citizen abuse to stop immediately. We want that young members of family must support elders. In the event of un-natural death of a son, we demand that the duty to care for the old in-laws must be given to his widow by default and strictly implemented. It is often difficult for senior citizens to work for a living in the last phase of life and it must be the duty of young members in the family including daughter-in-law to help the weak and old members during their most vulnerable phase.
Stop country’s next generation kids from growing without fathers (so called Pappa) and becoming criminals. A shared parenting (Equal custodial rights) must be the default in the event of a divorce, unless there is undeniable evidence to prove the cruelty of either spouse. With concessions accorded to women in education, jobs, income-tax payment and promotions it is far easier for women to find work and hence the idea of alimony must be made gender neutral and applicable to both spouses based on economic status rather than gender.
Punishment to those who file false cases once the above amendments (making laws crime based and gender neutral) are made. This will prevent false and frivolous cases from being filed. As per National Crime Record Bureau (2005 records), 98% of the dowry harassment cases were false. This puts tremendous burden on the state judicial and police machinery and has prevented genuine victims from getting justice (as it takes about 10 to 15 years for any case to reach its logical conclusion).
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has reported that Tihar jail is overflowing with innocent victims of false dowry cases who are the majority of inmates. This over crowding of jails has resulted in criminals roaming on the streets while innocent are lodged in jails and has tremendously increased crime in society. In addition, the over burdened police is not able to concentrate on its other critical duties like watching terrorists and this has increased the terrorism in the country as witnessed by recent serial bomb blasts in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
Spread awareness of the abuse of men and misuse of laws amongst authorities.
Gender neutrality training (as opposed to biased gender sensitivity training) to all authorities, police and judiciary. Crimes do not have religion, caste or gender and hence we demand that no laws be based on religion, caste or gender and create needless divisions and abuse innocent in the society.
Include help booths to protect abused men suffering from domestic violence or financial abuse by wife to be run by NGOs in the Police Commissioner’s offices.
Celebrate International Men’s day and recognize the tremendous contributions of men to society in the role of a son, brother, husband and father.
All family laws must be drafted by retired judges and preferably include grand mothers and grand fathers who have led successful family lives, understand the nuances of family issues and know how to solve them in an amicable way. Sadistic and failed women from national women commission have no role to play in family affairs as they have proven themselves to be anti-social with their activities of abuse on innocent.
This necessitates that Government appoint a Men’s Welfare Ministry and National Commission for Men (NCM) immediately to look into the issues holistically and provide relief to all citizens irrespective of gender and age.
On 29th March (Saturday), SIFF NGO activists from various cities of India will conduct a protest in front of Shivaji Nagar Court, Gate # 1, Pune City from 11 AM to 2 PM to demand formation of Men’s Welfare Ministry and National Commission for Men (NCM). SIFF is requesting you to cover this protest by sending your journalists and anchors to attend the event, who will be regarded as invited guests.
Soft copy of this press release can be downloaded from http://pressroom.prlog.org/siff_pune/
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Minister digs for rapes in Cong regime

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Minister_digs_for_rapes_in_Cong_regime/articleshow/2899954.cms

GANDHINAGAR: After the gangrape of a student in DIET-PTC at Patan exposed the marks-for-sex scam — that thrived when Anandiben Patel was the education minister — guess what the minister's new department is concerned about?

History of such incidents before the BJP came to power in 1995!

Instead of stemming the rot and doing justice to the rape victim, the women and child development department wants a list of similar incidents that took place before BJP came to power in 1995.

This department, currently headed by Anandiben, asked the home department to furnish a list just after two days of TOI exposing the Patan gangrape.

TOI came to know about this issue from the file noting made by deputy secretary, home, HJ Brahmakshatriya, on February 13. Brahmakshatriya sent a reminder to DGP PC Pande, along with a file, saying, "Hon. minister of state, women and child development's personal secretary had asked for details to be sent across of such incidents between the time period of 1985 and 1995".

The MoS in Anandiben's ministry is Maya Kodnani.

Brahmakshatriya wanted the information in two days of February 13, but the DGP's office has reportedly not furnished this information till now.

The reason for the same is said to be fallout over the ongoing political tussle between Anandiben and MoS for home, Amit Shah.

Brahmakshatriya had also written to Pande on February 7, asking him to find out about such incidents during the Congress regime when Amarsinh Chaudhary, Madhavsinh Solanki, Chimanbhai Patel and Chhabildas Mehta served as the chief ministers.

Orissa Speaker faces sexual harassment charges

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/orissa-speaker-faces-sexual-harassment-charges/61976-3.html

New Delhi: Orissa Assembly Speaker Maheshwar Mohanty is in trouble. He has been accused by Assembly marshall Gayatri Panda of sexually harassing her.

Twenty-nine-year-old Panda has alleged Mohanty used to call her to his chamber alone and even sent a car to her place late in the night. Panda also says the Speaker, who was aware she was unmarried, used to make lewd gestures at her.

"I am unmarried and stay alone. He used to send a car to my place at midnight and ask me to meet him alone. When I did House duty on the Speaker's dias, he would call me to his chamber. I can't describe what he used to do then. It's sad that a place where laws are made is a place that is not safe for women," Panda said.

The marshall claims she had lodged a complaint with the Assembly secretary on March 21.

However, Mohanty has denied the accusations. He says Panda is under suspension for dereliction of duty and is trying to blackmail her way back to the job.

She is blackmailing me, 100 per cent. You must have heard what she said. She says I have been frequently calling her to my chamber. That's not true. In fact, she was the one who came and approached me for an accommodation. I have never met her alone in my chamber during four years," Mohanty told CNN-IBN.

He also alleged there was a political conspiracy against him. "If someone has something against me, he or she will obviously come up with some or the other baseless allegation. She has been on suspension for negligence of duty and disobedience. To get rid of that, she has resorted to this method of blackmailing. I smell conspiracy. Though the matter is still pending inquiry so I cannot say who is behind this. I leave it to the inquiry body to look into this," he said.

The Speaker also says he heard about the complaint 10 days ago." She hasn't sent an official letter. The law is that if someone is facing disciplinary action, he/she has to be given a chance explain the charges. Her reply has not come yet," he said, referring to the case against Panda.





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WORDS OF ONE 498A LADY IN PATIALA HOUSE COURT

judge: why u file 498a on husband
498a lady: because i too much love him
judge: how
498a lady: because i do not want that wo mere siva kuch or sochey

the strategy is

after 498a we think always 498a lady that how to win how to tackle what will be result when will get releif and many more

5 YEARS OF LOVE BUT NOT 5 DAYS OF MARRIAGE

aisa kyon hota hai
ki pyar to 5 saal chal jata hai

lekin love marriage 5 din bhi nahi chalti

love behind hte 498a or love follow the 498a

SUICIDE IS THE LAST OPTION???????

if not
why pushkar done that
why amit done that

i think
we want to save our families in respect of personal life

because men are always social in respect of 498a wives

Women’s charter

http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20080411250702800.htm



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Hema Malini, Esha and Ahana in a dance video

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Kiran Bedi calls for change in Indian education system

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=39722

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

To the President of India

To,
The Honorable President of India,

This is regarding the recent murder of a married woman Rinku Sachdeva by her husband, Amit Buddhiraj, who was an employee of Software Major Infosys
Technologies in Bangalore. Although the whole matter in the media is being
hyped up that he killed his wife suspecting her of having an illicit
relationship with one of her colleagues, but the truth is not that. His
suicide note clearly mentions that he feared that having found out his
wife’s extra marital affair, he was threatened of a false dowry harassment
case. He very well knew that in the current scenario if the wife files a
false dowry harassment case against him and his parents, they will land in
big trouble as the law is totally biased and draconian in nature,
implementation and definition. He had lost faith in the Indian Judiciary and police, and hence an intelligent person like Amit Buddhiraj was compelled to take the law in his hands and he also knew that there is no point in living after that as he is not going to get justice, so he himself committed suicide.

There are thousands of families suffering from false cases filed under Sec
489A and the Domestic Violence Act 2005 and lakhs of families living day in
and day out of a fear of a false case being lodged against them if they do
not accede to the demands of the girl and her parents. Such miscarriage of
justice and abuse of a noble cause for EMPOWERING WOMEN is ruining the
Indian family world over and unleashing a new form of LEGAL TERRORISM on
umpteen number of innocent families.

The family system of India, which has been the crown of the rich and varied
Indian culture is slowly being devoured by a legally patronized and
nourished demon called the FALSE CASES of HARASSMENT. We need to remember
that FALSE ALLEGATIONS of ABUSE are ABUSE. If justice is not meted to those
suffering innocent families trapped in such cases, we will see more and more
people like Amit Buddhiraj taking such extreme steps. Not to mention of the
pain inflicted on the parents of the boy and the girl in their dusky days,
such extreme steps are a big drain on the intellectual property of the
country. Both of them were highly placed professionals and now their lives
and career have been ruined.

I, as a law abiding citizen of India, request the president to kindly look
into the current scenario of the implementation of marital laws, which being
highly gender biased are highly misused by unscrupulous people to their
criminalist advantages. Due to the undue sentimental balance of the
legislative and executive machinery towards a particular class of women,
such laws like 498A, Domestic Violence have become a handy tool to convert
marriage into a business opportunity. Such practices need to be stopped,
condemned and the abusers deemed to be punished to deter other people from
fraying into this obnoxious alley of LEGAL CRIMES.

I urge the Honorable President of India, to take up this matter seriously
and save the Indian Family from dying a premature and unnatural death.

RENUKA JI PLEASE READ - TOI

Teenager on pill delivers in toilet


Radha Sharma TNN

Ahmedabad: In a freak case that underlines the need for compulsory sex education in schools, a class XI girl who used an emergency contraceptive pill to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, and was at peace with herself, recently delivered a 3-kg baby in the toilet bowl. Apparently, she was plump and had no clue that she was pregnant.
Doctors at VS Hospital here were shocked when the girl, who was admitted to the hospital recently after she delivered the child in the toilet of her home, told them that she never realised she was pregnant.
She told the doctors that she thought she had taken care of the possibility of being pregnant by popping an emergency contraceptive pill within three days of having unprotected sex with a boy she had a fling with. ''The girl said she took an emergency contraceptive pill and forgot all about it. It may be a possibility that she took the pill later than the advised time period. It may also be that she may have indulged in sex even after having the pill thinking it will offer her protection later as well,'' said attending gynaecologist Rajal Thaker.
Thaker, who has taken sex education lectures with over 3,500 girls in Ahmedabad, apart from imparting sex education to visuallychallenged girls from all over the state, concedes that this case lays strong emphasis on the urgent need of re-introducing compulsory sex education to school children which was recently scrapped by the state government following protests from certain sections.
''The case also shows the complete breakdown on communication in nuclear families where the parents, who are also educated, did not notice that the girl was pregnant for the whole of nine months,'' says Thaker.

Daughter accuses Bihar MLA of molestation

Daughter accuses Bihar MLA of molestation
By Giridhar Jha in Patna
A BHARATIYA Janata Party legislator has been accused by his daughter of attempting to outrage her modesty in Aurangabad district while another girl was killed and then raped by her father in Patna. In a written complaint to the police, Kamala Devi, 32, alleged that her father, Aurangabad MLA Ramadhar Singh, tried to rape her on Holi day. Kamala is the president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal's district women's cell, but she insists that there is no politics behind it. In her complaint, Kamala said she met her father near Dabura More who asked her to sit in his white Scorpio. " As soon as I sat in the vehicle, he started threatening and abusing me," she alleged. She said her father misbehaved with her and attempted to rape her but she raised an alarm and somehow managed to escape. The police are investigating into the matter. Reports said Kamala had launched a relentless campaign against her father and had levelled many allegations against him in the last one year. This was the first time, however, that she had hurled such a personal slur on her father. Sources said Kamala's husband, Arun Kumar, was recently named as a suspect in a murder case in which a local BJP leader's kin was allegedly involved. She reportedly suspected her father's hand in it and her charges could be motivated by that incident. The legislator brushed aside his daughter's allegations saying it was the fallout of a political rivalry. " How can a father do such a thing to his daughter?" Singh asked. Krishna Sao from Naubatpur in Patna district, however, did worse; he killed his daughter in a fit of rage and then raped her. In a confessional statement to the police, Sao said that his school- going daughter was in love with a youth named Dhananjay and refused to end the relationship despite his warnings. Sao said on March 17, he got so angry that he strangled her to death and then raped her. The police said Sao disposed of her body and then reported that she had been kidnapped. But there were inconsistencies in his statements. The police took him in custody and he confessed to his crime. Sao is already an accused in another murder case. In another incident at Bansi Batranha village in Gopalganj district, a man chopped off the nose of his nine- year- old daughter to offer it to the goddess as part of a tantric ritual. The police have arrested Swaminath Baitha and sent him to jail. The girl was admitted in a critical condition to the local hospital where the doctors referred her to Gorakhpur hospital. giridhar. jha@ mailtoday. in




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SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORK: A HEALTH HAZARD FOR WOMEN

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORK: A HEALTH HAZARD FOR WOMEN
Would one ever think that sexual harassment at the workplace could be regarded as one of the most prevalent health hazards of work and that it could play havoc with your health? The National Commission for Women reports that sexual harrassment is on the rise at the workplace, and is increasingly being reported by women as they become more assertive and aware of their rights. Here are some common jobs where women are subject to harrassment, worldwide. Nursing Profession The nursing profession is one which has seen frequent cases of sexual harassment. In a study published in AORN journal, the range of harassing behaviours nurses reported were:  offensive sexual remarks  unwanted physical contact  unwanted nonverbal attention  requests for unwanted dates  sexual propositions A majority of the harassing incidents were not reported, which may be attributed to the nurses' lack of training about sexual harassment and their facilities' reporting policies and procedures. The study suggests that the high incidence of harassment in health care is related to the health care industry's polarized occupational segregation ( predominately female nurses, disproportionately high number of male physicians). Educational Institutions A Canadian based research reports sexual harassment in universities and colleges. Based on data collected by a questionnaire from 455 women, university undergraduate and graduate students and nine follow- up in- depth interviews, this study found that sexual harassment has both direct and indirect health effects, including nausea and sleeplessness, loss of self- esteem, fear and anger, feelings of helplessness and isolation, as well as nervousness and depression. Across the world sexual harassment at work is not unheard of. Just hidden in the closet, as most cases just go unreported.

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Rinku Sachdeva Dies Again Online

http://desicritics.org/2008/03/24/111106.php

Rinku Sachdeva Dies Again Online

March 24, 2008
Deepti Lamba


Rinku Sachdeva was allegedly suffocated to death by a pillow. Thereafter Amit Budhiraja allegedly hung himself to death. She was a Scorpio and he a Leo. She was from Mumbai and he a Delhiite. She was an outgoing Sikhni and he a Punjabi boy.

Their marriage was doomed from the beginning. He wanted perfection in love and she - who knows what she wanted. She is dead and he allegedly killed her. He claimed she had an affair but who knows?

In the online world, she has been tried and found guilty. They believe she was a promiscuous c$%#*& who deserved what came to her. They have murdered her again - believed his six page rant verbatim, where he alleged her ongoing affair, that her immoral potential blackmail of 498a drove him to kill her and commit suicide on a Holi night.

All of this is his side of the story but what was her side of the story? Does any one care? Was he an obsessive, conservative, insanely jealous man, blaming his marital troubles on platonic friends?

Could that not be her version? How are we to know? Even if she did fall for someone else, was that reason enough to kill?
Crime of passion or pre-meditated murder - no one deserves to die when it comes to matters of the heart.

Two young lives snuffed, grieving families left behind and plenty of fodder left for the online world to moralize, pontificate and deride.

Pay Commission RECOMMENDATION

http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/25/stories/2008032559701200.htm


Another major recommendation is that disciplinary action should be taken against any employee under the Service Conduct Rules if found guilty of violation of Domestic Violence (Prevention) Act

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Bride rejects dowry shark

Bride rejects dowry shark
Calcutta, March 24: The high court today rejected the anticipatory bail plea of a schoolteacher whose dowry demands went up as the wedding approached after the bride-to-be said she wouldn't accept him as her husband.
Sagar Das, 37, had asked for an extra Rs 1 lakh two days before marriage.
Mita Porey told the court she was convinced that he was after her father's money.
Police can now arrest Sagar, against whom Mita's father Jugal Kishore had lodged a complaint in Ghatal, West Midnapore.
Immediately after the February 25 marriage was fixed, Sagar had demanded Rs 51,000. "Jugal Kishore paid the money and promised to gift furniture and jewellery worth Rs 1.5 lakh to his daughter," said Pinaki Bhattacharya, the counsel appearing for the state.
On February 23, the primary school teacher's mother told Jugal Kishore that her son wanted Rs 1 lakh more before the wedding.
The furniture and jewellery were ready and invitation cards had been sent but the Dases cancelled the wedding. The father of the bride went to the police on March 1 and Sagar prayed for anticipatory bail in the high court.
Before the division bench of Justices D.P. Sengupta and P.K. Deb, Sagar's lawyer said his client was ready to withdraw the demand for Rs 1 lakh and marry Mita if his petition was granted.
"Can't we try and find an amicable solution to the problem?" lawyer Sekhar Basu asked.
Mita stood up, pointed a finger at Sagar and said: "I don't want to marry him."

WHY WE LOOSE OUR CASES (SORRY TO SAY)

no knowledge of law
finacial problem
cheat by lawyer
job problem
time problem
many responsibilities like mother father brother sister

RE: [SaveIndianFamily] WHY WE LOOSE OUR CASES (SORRY TO SAY)

Main reason, i think is:
Cruelty of our wives, their families, supporters of our wives and last but not least--feminists.

They are so cruel and are ready to play dramas to any extent to prove that their false cases are true somehow. Brutal most of the ones are the ones who cry in Court of Law and show their Crocodile tears to every one,
Crocodile Tears by the brutal women--is the reason why we, men loose cases.

WHY WE LOOSE OUR CASES (SORRY TO SAY)

no knowledge of law
finacial problem
cheat by lawyer
job problem
time problem
many responsibilities like mother father brother sister

Monday, March 24, 2008

HEADS AND TALES

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/opinions/2892122.cms

Crime In And Around Hyderabad

http://www.siasat.com/english/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=254942&Itemid=79&cattitle=Hyderabad

Two dowry deaths in the city
Hyderabad, March 24 (Siasat News): Two separate incidents of dowry death took place in the suburban areas of the city.
According to the police, a man A Raju set her wife A Chandrakala ablaze at Narguda village of Shamshabad, as she did not pay the dowry demanded by her husband. Police said that they were married in April 2007. Rs. 50,000/- was promised at the time of the marriage and Rs. 20,000/- was immediately paid.
However, Raju was demanding the balance Rs. 30,000/-. When Chandrakala could not meet his demand, Raju set her afire. The second incident took place at Hudasai Nagar in Vanasthalipuram where a woman R Sravanthi committed suicide by hanging.
Police said that she was married to one R Santosh in 2005. However, her in-laws were harassing her for more dowry since last few months. She could not bear their harassment and took the extreme step. In the meantime, Sravanthi's parents have alleged that her in-laws murdered her.
Childless woman commit suicide
Hyderabad, March 24 (Siasat News): A woman Tahmeen Tahseen Fatima committed suicide as she remained issueless after her marriage.
Inspector Madannapet Ashok Chakravarthy said that Fatima, 28, was married to a trader Syed Yaqoob Hussein ten years ago and both were living at the star apartment in Dhobighat. She was very upset, as the couple had no children even after the ten long years of marriage.
She took the extreme step of killing herself and consumed acid some one and half months back. However, she was fighting with her life in a private hospital and finally could not survive. Police Madannapet is further investigating.






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Contempt of court and the media

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Contempt of court and the media




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The problems raised by trial by media involve a tug of war between two conflicting principles free press and free trial. The freedom of the press stems from the right of the public in a democracy to be involved on the issues of the day, which affect them.[1] People cannot adequately influence the decisions that affect their lives unless they can be adequately informed on the facts and arguments relevant to the decisions. Much of such fact-finding and argumentation necessarily has to be conducted vicariously, the public press being a principal instrument. This is also the justification for investigative and campaign journalism.[2]
At the same time, the right to fair trial, uninfluenced by extraneous pressures is recognized as a basic tenet of justice. The Constitution of India[3] and the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 contain provisions aimed at safeguarding the right to fair trial. Restrictions are imposed on the discussion or publication of matters relating to the merits of a case pending before a Court. A journalist may thus be liable for contempt of court if he publishes anything which might prejudice a fair trial or anything which impairs the impartiality of a court to decide a cause on its merits, whether the proceedings before the Court be a criminal or civil proceeding.[4]
In relation to freedom of speech and expression, there are three types of contempt of court:
(a) One kind of contempt is scandalizing the court itself;
(b) There may likewise be a contempt of court in abusing parties who are concerned in causes in the court;
(c) There may also be contempt in prejudicing mankind against persons before the cause is heard.
However, the above classifications are by no means exhaustive. Very broadly speaking, the conduct may refer to anything that tends to bring the administration of justice into disrepute or to obstruct or interfere with the due course of justice.[5]
Pre-trial publicity
Sensationalized journalism has also had an impact on the judiciary. For example, in upholding the imposition of the death penalty on Mohammed Afzal for the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament, Justice P. Venkatarama Reddi stated, (t)he incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, had shaken the entire nation and the collective conscience of the society will only be satisfied if capital punishment is awarded to the offender.[6]
A media trial began almost immediately after Afzals arrest. Only one week after the attack, on 20 December 2001, the police called a press conference during the course of which Afzal incriminated himself in front of the national media. The media played an excessive and negative role in shaping the public conscience before Afzal was even tried.[7]
Similarly, S.A.R. Geelani, one of Afzals co-defendants in the Parliament attack case, was initially sentenced to death for his alleged involvement despite an overwhelming lack of evidence. Large sections of the Indian media portrayed him as a dangerous and trained terrorist. On appeal, the Delhi High Court overturned Geelanis conviction and described the prosecutions case as at best, absurd and tragic.[8]
Protection of the rights of the accused
Taking exception to the media interviewing witnesses and commenting on cases during trial, the Law Commission has recommended changes in the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 to protect the rights of the accused and ensure the proper conduct of trial in its latest report titled Trial by Media,[9] headed by Justice M Jagannadha Rao. It has also emphasised the need to sensitise journalists through proper training in certain aspects of the law. What is going on in the media may indeed be highly objectionable. Merely because it is tolerated by the courts, it may not cease to be contempt, the Commission noted in the report. The Commission said: In our country the lack of knowledge of law of contempt currently shows that there is extensive coverage of interviews with witnesses. The panel said that this is highly objectionable even under the current law of contempt if such interviews are conducted after the chargesheet is filed. We are of the view that there is considerable interference with the due administration of criminal justice and this will have to remedied by Parliament, the report said.[10]
In its report submitted to the Government, the Commission said, Today there is a feeling that in view of the extensive use of the television and cable services, the whole pattern of publication of news has changed and several such publications are likely to have a prejudicial impact on the suspects, accused, witnesses and even judges and in general on the administration of justice.[11] The report said, according to our law, a suspect/accused is entitled to a fair procedure and is presumed to be innocent till proved guilty in a court of law. None can be allowed to prejudge or prejudice his case by the time it goes to trial.[12]
It said that publications, which interfered or tend to interfere with the administration of justice would amount to criminal contempt under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 and if in order to preclude such interference, the provisions of that Act impose reasonable restrictions on freedom of speech, such restrictions would be valid.
The report noted that at present, under Section 3 (2) of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 such publications would be contempt only if a chargesheet had been filed in a criminal case. The Commission has suggested that the starting point of a criminal case should be from the time of arrest of an accused and not from the time of filing of the charge sheet. In the perception of the Commission such an amendment would prevent the media from prejudging or prejudicing the case.
The United States and Australia both have stringent provisions regulating media trials, and the solutions that are envisaged to the damage caused to the right to a fair trial of the accused range from sequestering of the judge/jury for the duration of the trial, to transferring trials to more neutral jurisdictions, to declaring mistrials and acquitting accused persons, and in extreme cases, even barring further criminal complaints against an accused whose character has been so tarnished by media scrutiny that it would be impossible for him to be given a fair trial. In India, the Press Council of India does have regulations concerning reporting of sub judice matters, but a violation of these norms will only call for sanction against the media organization and will not necessarily ensure justice to the accused. At present, in India, the impossibility of a fair trial for an accused can possibly be a ground for transfer of cases to another jurisdiction. The Supreme Court has come down on trials by media, especially in dowry cases, where public sympathy is clearly with the victim and her family, and outpours of public outrage against the errant husband and his family easily find place in local publications.
In M P Lohia v. State of West Bengal[13], Justice Santosh Hegde of the Supreme Court felt compelled to note the disturbing factor. The case concerned the death of one Chandni in February, 2002 and the complaint in this regard was registered, the investigation was in progress and the application for grant of anticipatory bail had been disposed of by the High Court of Calcutta when an article has appeared in a magazine called Saga titled Doomed by Dowry written by one Kakoli Poddar based on her interview of the family of the deceased. Justice Hegde remarked that all material narrated therein are those that may be used in the forthcoming trial, and was convinced that they would certainly interfere with the administration of justice.
The need for openness
There is a concern that the above regulations may result in the restricted reporting of important cases. In the interests of ensuring fair trials, the media in UK for instance have restricted the reporting of terrorist trials for long periods. Conviction following a fair trial is a major weapon to combat terrorism.
The case with family courts is also similar. There is a feeling that the workings of, and the decisions made in family courts are too secretive. The argument runs that without increased openness there can be no confidence in the workings of the family court, and therefore no confidence in the process or the outcomes. To a consultation in the UK on the issue, the Newspaper Society wrote that:
We fully support the proposal that the media should be allowed to attend ALL family courts as of right and the principle of a general presumption of openness must be the established if public confidence and accountability is to be achieved. The role of the media as representative of the public particularly in relation to attendance at court proceedings is well established and understood.
Media groups argue that the solution lies in letting journalists in as of right to act as a proxy for the public. To restrict them would be to deny the public and mean that miscarriages of justice could go unrecognised and unreported.
The contempt law is as old as Common Law itself. The Court, however, will act only where justice is jeopardized by a gross and/or unfounded attack on the Judges, where the attack is calculated to obstruct or destroy the judicial process. The judiciary cannot be immune from criticism. Judges and courts are alike open to criticism, and if reasonable argument or expostulation is offered against any judicial act as contrary to law or the public good, no Court could or would treat that as contempt of court. It is only the scurrilous abuse on a Judge in his character as a Judge, which would be actionable under the Contempt of Courts Act. The freedom of the press and the independence of the judiciary are two of the most important indices of democracy in a country. It is essential to preserve both. Pliable press and subservient judiciary are the first step in the process of extinguishment of democratic lights[14].
(Ritu Tiwary is a student at HNLU in Raipur. Aju John is an editor at Indlaw.)


[1] A.G. v. Times Newspaper, (1973) 3 All ER 54, 1973 INDLAW HL 10.
[2] Id.
[3] The Constitution of India, arts. 129 and 215.
[4] Bathina v. State of Madras, (1952) SCR 425.
[5] J.R. Parashar v. Prashant Bhushan, (2001) 6 SCC 735, 2001 INDLAW SC 20736.
[6] Trial by Media at http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/ (March 3, 2008).
[7] Id.
[8] Id.
[9] See, Trial by Media: Free Speech v. Free Trial Criminal Procedure (Amendments to the Contempt of Court Act, 1971), 200th Law Commission Report, 2006.
[11] Supra note 24.
[12] Id.






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APNEY KYA KHOYA / KYA PAYA (SORRY TO SAY)

in my point of view
i lost my dignity
i lost my self respect
i lost my social respect
i lost my career
i lost my promotion
i lost my child
i lost my grandpa
and many more

but
i got sif
i got sif members friend true and faithful
i got how to fight with the law
i got how to tackle the law
i got how to win the case
i got how to make advisable
and many more

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Mechanism to check sexual harassment in armed forces

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2339769.cms





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An orphanage in cause of saving the girl child in Tamil Nadu

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Photographing woman's legs not harassment: SKorean court

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Renuka Chowdhury Accused of Fudging "Dowry Deaths" Statistics

http://desicritics.org/2008/03/16/091618.php

One-year-old boy married to dog in Orissa

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Reconciliation

Marriage as an institution has always been highly placed in the Indian sociological scenario. It has been always been seen as the first step towards settled life and laying the foundation of family. But as they say, “All human troubles start from the inability to sit quietly in a room,” this so called sacred institution has its own dark side. Where, on one hand, marriage provides a platform to two individuals coming from totally different backgrounds and albeit different mindsets to come together, understand each other and be each others support in life, financially, morally, spiritually, emotionally and physically, it has its own uninvited share of problems. The most talked of and debatable of the problems associated with marriage is DOWRY. Sometimes the girls’ family give dowry as a pre-assumption that the boys’ family shall keep the girl happy and sometimes it is seen from the boys side as compensation to take care of the girl. With increasing reports from the media about the torture meted out to the Indian Daughter-in-law about dowry harassment and deaths due to it, the Govt. of India formulated the Dowry Prohibition Act in 1961 and introduced Section 498A in the Indian Penal Code in the year 1983, wherein harassment of the ‘wife’ for dowry was named as a criminal offence and extremely strict measures were provided within its ambit to protect the ‘Married Woman’ from the clutches of money-hungry dowry demanders. It just required a written unverified complaint from the girl or any relative on behalf of the girl to file a criminal case against the ‘HUSBAND’ and his family members and they would be arrested immediately and sent to judicial custody until either they were bailed out or chargesheeted and trial ensued. But it was a very big catch there, since the provision gave the police discretionary powers of arrest, and that too on an unverified complaint, as also filing a false complaint under this offense and leveling false accusations against the HUSBAND and his family did not attract any punishment on the girl or her parents, a lot of false complaints have started pouring in.

The police have a field day as they get a golden chance to make money from both sides for settling the dispute and the girls’ side get an upper hand as they can now extort money from the husbands’ family using the criminal case, the fear of police, arrest, and social stigma associated with jail as a weapon. Cases where money is not a prime concern, such a false case has been used by the girls’ side to get their unjust demands conceded, like staying separate from the boys’ parents, siphon boys’ hard earned money to girls’ parents if the boy is rich / well to do, or to end a relationship where the ‘expectations’ of the girl were not met, or to break a marriage to marry someone else whom the girl is in love with, or to get custody of children, and a plethora of such reasons. But it is not always the girls’ side that has to be blamed, many a times it has been found that the girls and their family have been ill-advised and misguided by unscrupulous and insincere lawyers who are out to make their own money. There have been cases where the judges also force the boy to compromise. And in such cases and many more, the girls repent for having taken such a step and they hope for reconciliation and want to arrive at a compromise. And so we have the next obvious big question, “What should the man do, reconcile or not with a wife who has a filed a false case of dowry harassment?” So we will take a peek at that possibility, its chances of occurrence and possible / fearful repercussions.

If the boy decided to take the girl back, then on one side it looks like a marriage has been saved and both of them have given a second thought to the relationship despite considerable differences and this shall highlight the importance of the institution of marriage as also shall throw light on the necessity of tolerance, acceptance and adjustment to make a relation work. Also it shall save the courts from being overburdened with another case and both the families from the headache of another marriage. In case the couple had children, they would be spared the tragedy of a single parent, as for a successful upbringing the child needs both the parents as has been corroborated by a study in US that children brought up by single mom have a increasing tendency and majority of them turning out to be criminals when they grow up. It will also set an example to others about how a relation can be saved.

Having said that, let us have a look at the other side of the coin. It has to kept in mind that the dowry case is false and the allegations has been fabricated and a severe breach of trust has been committed by the ‘wife’, leading to severe deterioration of the economical, emotional, and reputational health of the HUSBAND and his family. If a woman can walk into the police station and levy false accusations on the husband and forces him to concede to her ‘DEMAN DS’ deemed as ‘JUST’ by an explanation sounding logic to her ears, taking undue advantage of a law that has been made to protect the ‘WEAKER’ women, this thought of bringing such a woman back into one’s life shall invite justifiable contention. When already she has crossed the line, what is the guarantee that she will not cross it again or she will not cross it again with a larger fury? The first time she filed the complaint in a fit of immaturity and had not done her homework properly and therefore could not get what she wanted and thus offers the bait of compromise to be able to enter the house again and plan a proper route to jail for her husband and her in-laws. She will collect evidence in her favor, humiliate in-laws and instigate them to create a scene of violence, for when a woman gets vindictive she gets very dangerous and ruins everyone around her, including self. She can forge drama that there has been attempt to her life and limb by any means like, cutting her hands, or setting her sari on fire and dousing it and portraying it as act to murder her and all she has to do is to utter the word, ‘DOWRY’ in front of the police and the in-laws are behind bars and in deep shit, even if they are innocent and the woman shall have the power to make them dance at her whims and fancies.

Bringing her back, would also empower her by granting access to your possessions (financial instruments, emotions, attachments) to a serpentine creature, who can misuse them to the core. It will set a bad example in a society encouraging other women to resort to such tactics and rule their husband’s life and family. We need to keep in mind that no law can run a household and once the petty marital discords have been shaded legally, the relationship has been murdered in all practical aspects and it is just a matter of time before it is dead on paper. Even if the couple has children and they reconcile for the children, it will be very hard for the couple to stay peacefully, the grudge shall always remain, howsoever the husband is mature and understanding and those children shall always see their parents fighting and will fail to develop faith in the institution of marriage. Expectations should have a limit. If the woman expects that she will keep dancing and choreographing her husband’s and in-laws’ movements and ultimately when she fails, she should be forgiven and provided one more chance, then it has to borne in mind that the MAN had been tagged a criminal for no fault of his and he and his family has gone through a stage of tremendous trauma, stress and unwanted, unforeseen and uninvited hardships, all thanks to the false complaint filed by the wife. It involves monetary loss (perhaps recoverable), emotional draining (irrecoverable and leaves incurable mental scars), reputational assassination (recoverable only to a certain extent, and that too depends on how the individual handles it and perceives it). There has to be accountability for such huge losses and inflictions and effective means to curb such a menace.

With this note, I leave it to the readers to decide whether they would like to reconcile and die a death every day or fight back the menace, contribute their bit to create awareness and save other families and emerge an overall winner in life. I will end this article with a final analogy. A wife who has filed a false criminal case on her husband to settle petty scores and money extortion can be compared with this situation. Imagine someone stuck badly in city traffic and has an urgent nature's call to attend to and at the same time feeling thirsty and wants to have water. The water that was present in the body has been marked as waste and he needs to get rid of it and at the same time he needs some fresh water to quench his thirst. As long as the waste water remains in his body, he will feel uneasy and those toxins in the waste water shall start ruining his system slowly. He needs water, but cannot use the water present in his body; he has to get rid of it. The waste water is a wife who files such a case. In order to carry on in life properly, the man has to get rid of such a wife as soon as possible. The fresh water is new life for the man, the definition and demographics of which are context dependent and individual defined.

Consequences of IPC 498A

First time readers refer to IPC 498A – The most draconian law for reference and continuity.

Having had discussed the features and loopholes of IPC 498A and some of its possible areas of misuse, we will now proceed to discuss the consequences of filing a FALSE DOWRY CASE on the MAN, his friends and families. If for a while we assume that the law is not misused, then also this serves a very lesser purpose as conviction under this law is very difficult, for it needs to be proved the said HARASSMENT for the UNLAWFUL DEMAND was of such nature that it was of danger to the life and limb of the complainant or that it drove the complainant to suicide to the satisfaction of the court beyond reasonable doubt. So we have terms like “satisfaction of the court” and “beyond reasonable doubt” which are highly contentious and interpretation dependent and also difficult to PROVE, DISPROVE or term the accusations and allegations as NOT PROVED.

Hence even if the case is true, justice is hard to be delivered. And the case being true, it is the girl here who has been harassed and yet the chances of she getting justice will be very meek. And for a false case, there is no question of imparting justice to the girl as no harassment as alleged has ever taken place and real justice should be meted out to the boy’s family which never happens in a great country like India which assumes that all daughters-in-law are true to the core and all in-laws of complaining and cribbing girls have never uttered a word of truth in their whole life. As has been repeatedly highlighted that filing a false case is gross misuse of IPC 498A and we have also seen even if the case is true, justice is far to be sought.

The retrospective effects of such a case are far reaching and case based. Firstly it is a lifetime blow to the husband, a stab in the back from someone as close to heart as SPOUSE, LIFE PARTNER. Hence the moral and emotional setback is always there. To add to it, the stereotypic and orthodox mindset of the society that a MAN must have done something TERRIBLY BAD to deserve this kind of treatment. This is a result of age long hypnotization and mass brain wash by the feminists to lead into the whole world believing that women are VICTIMS for no fault of theirs and men are PERPETRATORS of violence without rhyme and reason. With such a one – sided ubiquitously stereotypic mentality prevailing world over and especially within and amongst the legislative and executive machinery, it becomes almost next to impossible for the MAN to prove his innocence, in spite of the fact that he possesses evidences to support his claim otherwise. Such an atmosphere can have wide and varied effects. We shall study those under two categories.

Men who have not yet fathered their offspring: -

For these men, the story is relatively simpler since they do not have the emotional kickback of a child. Also the fact that they have been saved from fathering a new born from a devilish woman gives much solace to them which can transform into the much needed courage to ensue the ever – impending fight. But depending on individuality and circumstances, these FALSE CASES can either kill the manhood or give it a push. Moreover men falsely implicated in such cases seem to lose faith in the institution of marriage completely, especially if the marriage is less than a year old before the case is filed. Such euphoria in the society can lead to severe and irrevocable deterioration of the trust and faith on marriage, the institution which has been the foundation of family life since time immemorial. It is not only those men who are themselves directly involved in such cases but also other unmarried men around such men like their younger brothers, first cousins and close friends who watch the MAN go through the abuse, tend to loose the confidence on MARRIAGE, and refrain from tying the knot. They tend to develop a sense of insecurity getting married as they see rendering themselves liable to be made easy scapegoats of this LEGAL TERRORISM. Moreover they don’t really need to get married to be embroiled in the abuse, as any of their brother’s or cousin’s or for that matter any friends’ wife can also drag them into a false case saying these men were hand in gloves with her husband in ‘torturing her for dowry’.

This view holding true for men who resolve to fight the misuse, we will now see the effects of such a false case on the MAN who gives in to the misuse and either accepts the DEMANDS of the girl or settles for money. Such men not only loose their self-esteem and sense of manhood, leading the life of a henpecked husband but also carry the self-remorse and guilt of setting a bad example and contributing to the spread of misuse indirectly. Whereas the blame for such a conduct on part of the MAN cannot be directly attributed to him as has been already iterated that - “in majority of the cases, the metamorphosis of a happily married man to a legal fighter dies prematurely and the matter ends with a monetary compromise” – the reasons for the death of the metamorphosis is another big topic over which volumes of analysis can be represented. For now we look into the effects of the death of the metamorphosis. And such a man who has conceded to the demands, and has not yet fathered an offspring, when actually does so, cannot set an example of a brave MAN and the offspring shall grow up to see a henpecked man and will carry the traits as such. If she is a girl, she will expect her prospective husband also to be such and if he is a boy, he will realize this as a way of life. So we see a wrong trend being set in the society where giving in to the wife’s illogical demands is considered LIBERATION of WOMEN and not doing so results in her HARASSMENT for which we have the law called IPC 498A, and thus a vicious circle is created wherein the misuse self-feeds itself and grows to be a self-nourished monster devouring the demographics and essences of a sane and awake society.

Another ill-effect of such a false case is the wreckage and deterioration of the intellectual property of the country. It has been observed as a norm that these cases are filed to extort money from high earning people in the corporate world especially the software industry which consists of people having an elevated and sharpened intellect and a relatively higher IQ. Also such cases are filed within 5 years of marriage which means that the MAN is either in his late twenties or early thirties which is a very critical juncture of his career. Embroiling young people for an average of 5 – 7 years in such false cases, where conviction can lead to complete ruin of an illustrious career, can be a dealing and yielding blow to the intellectual property, as the man will spend his time, money and energy towards saving his skin from a stereotypically biased system which has refused to move ahead with times. The investments, read time, money and energy, that the man would have otherwise spent on more useful means is now being forced to be wasted to salvage oneself from an effort to ruin the life of the man in particular and society in general.

These were some of the effects and consequences that a false case can have on the people around and the actual victim, the MAN involved in it. Though they cater in general to men whether fathers or not, we will now proceed to look into the same for fathers in particular.

Men who have fathered their offspring: -

The battle is tougher for these people. For, in addition to fight against the legal system and prove themselves innocent for an offense they did not commit, they also need to muster courage to fight against one more thing, the natural emotion of fatherhood as these unfortunate men are deprived of the time they deserve with their children not only by their vindictive wives but also by the judicial system. Long live the Indian Judicial System, which still believes that only mothers can take better care of children and also force the fathers to stay away from their offspring. The judiciary neither believes in shared and joint parenting nor contesting the case on merits. And the brunt of the fallacy is borne by those fathers who not only carry the false sense of guilt of a crime NOT committed, but also have to kill their fatherhood for feeding a marriage devouring monster called the FALSE DOWRY CASE.

There have been umpteen number of instances wherein the fathers are not only blackmailed in the name of their children but also are forced to compromise for the well-being of the child and in spite of the compromise being undertaken, the men are deprived of their child’s love. And in such cases it is not only the men who suffer, innocent silent sufferer’s cries go unheard who are not only unaware of the system, but also suffer at the hands of a vindictive woman who uses the child as a bargain tool to get her illegal way out legally. And the saddest part of the whole bitter truth is that the whole drama is passed off in the legislative atmosphere as WOMEN LIBERATION and EMPOWERMENT OF THE WEAKER SEX.

Sometimes MEN are just threatened of false cases to be lodged against them in case they make an attempt to meet their children. The Indian Penal Code has provided for visitation rights to Men to meet their children, who are separated from their spouses, but it is a long legal battle for the men before they get visitation rights which is again just for a couple of hours on weekends and that too mostly in the court premises where the MEN are not even allowed to bring anything for their children. If they make an attempt to increase meeting hours of visitation they are again threatened with false cases. All this is a toll on the man already but these women and the system fail to notice and understand that how a child who is deprived of the parental love, that he / she not only deserves but also needs very much for a normal upbringing, develops deep and irrevocable mental scars in his / her early days which are lifelong and play major role in the development of the child’s personality and behavioral pattern.

It is not the only bitter fact that the child and the father are not allowed to meet, the time the child is with the mother, she brainwashes the child against the father. There have been cases where the child does not even recognize their own father and has designated them as UNCLES. The child will grow with a falsely imbibed and viciously superimposed sense of hatred and non – belonging towards his / her father and day the child becomes a father, in case the child is a male, will be non – responsive and indifferent towards his children for he as a child was only shown that a MAN is indifferent towards his children. He was never shown the suffering his FATHER went through in staying separate from his own prodigy for no fault on his part except for the fact that he was a responsible, loving and caring man.

These are just some of the consequences of a false case on the child, the MAN and his friends and relatives. There are many far – reaching consequences of such cases which will affect the social, familial, and the economic health of the Indian society in general and individuals in particular. All those who are right now patronizing this misuse and allowing it to spread in order to realize their ulterior motives of power hunger and political urge need to understand that they are slowly digging their own grave and there shall befall a day in their lives when there won’t be a single soul to cremate their rotten bodies. All those who are undergoing the misuse being its victims and are standing up to fight it shall turn out to be better human beings, who could turn an obstacle in their lives into an opportunity.