Friday, May 7, 2010

Crime abettor woman got Punishment


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How many times in India have you seen that a woman and her parents/family who harass a husband and his family, such hard that the poor husband is driven to commit suicide?

The story in this news article picture is about one such RAREST-of-RARE cases where a woman and her father have been awarded a 5 years' rigorous imprisonment.
It's important here to note that this husband was no less than a man working in the Police department of India. Any Indian would tell you without even a blink how much a common man is afraid of Police because of various reasons.
But here was this man, a constable with Police department in Raipur (Chhattisgarh, India), who was helpless in front of his own wife.

WHY??

Police is famous as a department in India where laws are bend/violated/ignored in every possible way. Still this poor constable could not help him?
A man, associated with a department meant (it's other matter though that this meaning doesn't hold anymore) to help and save common man, was himself so helpless that he found no other way but to commit suicide !!

WHY??

Did he not take help from his seniors in Police department itself? Could his seniors have helped him save his life, but could not do so?

WHY??

The reason is the LAW-making factory in India which works under the influence of Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) and the National Commission for Women (NCW) and churns out seriously flawed gender-biased laws which only help the "Wife"(s) of India. Although, these govt organs are supposed to work for all the women (like mothers , sisters, aunts etc.), the reality is that these prefer to work against MEN. Many laws like IPC 498A, Domestic Violence Act (DV) etc. have been the handiwork of these organs. Misuse of these laws have unleashed unprecedented hardships not only for the husbands, but also for his mother, father, sister, brother-in-law, aunt etc... i.e. whole family and is breaking the family fabric of India.

What happened with this police constable, Arun, is not anything new or unusual. Similar stories like his are today happening all over India. The provisions in these laws are so biased that husband and his entire family gets labeled as criminals as soon as any complaint is filed against them. And, there is no provision to punish unscrupulous women who misuse these laws for their personal financial gains or for taking revenge on petty issues.

As a result of misuse of these laws lakhs of innocent people including Men, Women, Old-age, minors have been put behind bars over past several years. Have a look at the statistics here: http://stats.498a.org/
According to National Crime Records Bureau, around 58000 married men committed suicide.
Have a look at the expose by The Sunday Indian on IPC498A misuse here : How and why the law is an Ass


How much welcome is this Judgement?

This judgement should be lauded for the reason that it's a first time such a decision has been delivered where a wife and her father were labeled as criminals, declared guilty and awarded punishment.
I would, however, take this judgement with a pinch of salt.
A bigger picture of the role of women-favoring laws has again been missed. A review of these laws could have been ordered by the judge.
There is no talk on the role of this constable's seniors. They should have been the first ones to protect his life.

Until the system is rectified, husbands and their families will keep getting harassed like this. Many like Arun are dying unnatural deaths by committing suicides every year.

2 comments:

  1. here is another contempt case on divorced wife.

    Divorcee claims maintenance, court raps her for contempt - http://tinyurl.com/23m3wrn

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  2. 5 years RI for 2 abettor-legal terrorists is a good start, more please

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