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Written by Virag
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Better the less said about the misuse (read intended use) of Section 498A IPC, the most draconian law ever formed to infringe upon the civil liberties of individuals and rip-apart the family system of India. This one law wreaks so much havoc on Indian men and their families that it drives them to suicide. Every year close to 58000 husbands commit suicide, every nine minutes a married man ends his life and in the last 12 years 170,000 husbands have ended their life unable to bear the domestic violence from their wives and in-laws and the apathy of the Government and Society towards them.
Added to that, the Government has formulated Weapons of Male Destruction (WMD) like Section 498A which mandates arrest of innocent persons merely on the basis of complaints without any need to investigate into the complaint or corroborate it with evidence. Not only that, even the judiciary uses the Section to abuse men. Often when the complaint is received, husband and his family are not given bail unless they accede to the financially extortionary demands of wife and her parents.
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Written by Virag
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Public has a short memory and this has been proved time and again. “Irretrievable breakdown of marriage” was quite in discussion until some time ago and caught a high with the case of Smriti Shinde – daughter of ex-law minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde – filing a Public Interest Litigation to make the same as a ground of divorce as well but now the topic is completely out of discussion.
And further unfolding of the case revealed that it was actually a case of a “Mutual Consent” Divorce filed and one of the spouses refusing to abide by the mutual consent agreement even after a part of the agreement, based on which the consent was drawn, being fulfilled and thus divorce not being granted.
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Written by Pandurang Katti
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Why Judicial Reforms
Judicial reforms are the need of the Day in the Country. And the Reforms in the Family courts are even more urgent. A person can continue living a “normal” even if faced with criminal matter or been victim of crime in any fashion be it robbery or assault. However when faced with marital breakdown a persons life is put on hold till the verdict. Hence it is imperative that Marital Problem is given the highest priority and overhauling of system is important.
Just two days before there was judgement in Bombay high court where in after 14 years the husband was told that it is perfectly acceptable for a wife to harass him every day by quarrelling over petty and niggling issues or essentially not to meet any expectation that a man may have in marriage
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Written by Virag
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The Indian Government led by a person called Manmohan is truly shameless. It indulges in pure hypocrisy and double standards.
Lets take the case of chair person of National Commission for Women, who is literally lying on National Television.
On one hand they talk about protection of women, and on the otherhand they do not even create an Anti-dowry helpline for preventing dowry. They do not want to create a law for prevention of forced marriages of women. Manmohan is responsible for arrest of more than 1,23,000 women without trial or investigation in last 4 years. Why is he showing his face? Has he lost all the shame after these women are dragged to police stations, abused, insulted, harassed, threatened, extorted and then sent to jail?
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Written by AIMRAW
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$1 Billion to Imprison the Innocent
The International Violence against Women Act (I-VAWA) was recently introduced in the Senate (S.2982) and House (H.R.4594) with the purported goal of stopping domestic violence around the world. India and other countries have had extensive experience with such abuse-reduction laws, which have had a disastrous impact on our society.
India enacted its first domestic violence laws in 1983, over a decade before the United States passed the Violence Against Women Act in 1994. Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code mandates the arrest and jailing of the husband accused of domestic violence, along with his male/female relatives. Under Indian law, such persons are presumed guilty until proven innocent.
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Written by Administrator
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The early morning attack on Pearl Harbour on early morning of December 7th, 1941 by Japanese killed 2,402 people and wounded 1,282 people. These attacks were unprovoked and took the American soldiers sleeping in battleships by surprise. The surprise attack made the Americans at Pearl Harbour look completely helpless as their battleships, ground aircrafts and young soldiers were finished off by Japanese. Unprovoked attacks on people can sometimes be very costly as Japanese were to find in 1945.
Now, when one looks at Indian situation in last decade, at least a million innocent Indian citizens have been threatened, abused, insulted, extorted and jailed for no crime committed by them, just due to jealously, incompetency, sadistic, high handed brutal behaviour by some people occupying high positions of power.
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Written by Sumanth
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Most Indians are aware of Indian National Family Health Survey (NFHS). If you happened to watch some of serials in Colors TV Channel, then you may come across certain refereneces to statistics provided by National Family Healthy Survey. Most poeple do not question these statistics, their sources or the agencies which conducted this survey assuming that this survey is funded and conducted by Government of India.
Now, here is the shocking part, which is out open for everyone to see. The National Family Health Survey is not funded by Government of India. It is funded by United States. Now, its very natural that US or its International agency USAID will dictate the methods and priorities in the survey after all it is funding it. In short, it is not democratically elected Government of India, which decided what constitutes "Family health", but its the vested interests who dictate our family policies.
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Written by Sumanth
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Here is what a famous feminist Dona Fernandes, who is sister-in-law of former defense minister George Fernandes says:
"Today's empowered women are refusing to follow the traditional diktats of Indian marriages. Marriage is the biggest form of displacement for any woman as she has to shift from her home (natural habitat) to her husband's home.
"It is the wife who is supposed to adjust. But today's financially strong women are not ready to take undue pressure on their individual existence and thus marital discords are bound to increase," said Fernandes.
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