The IPC does not have enough checks and balance to make the cops and plaintiff accountable. Changes should be incorporated to balance the law. The cops should investigate fairly on who could be at fault before arresting people arbitrarily and not jump on capitalizing on people's worst nightmares. The police should get pulled up each time they tain the image of respectable families.
The media has largely exaggerated the plight of dowry victims and made men feel guilty even when they had to confront reasonable expectations from their wife. The media should also portray the negatives of women lib. especially the current tendency among women to move away from an extended family system which they consider restrictive on their sexual freedom and hence all this hostility against their husband's family. Women should take marriage more seriously and not get mixed up with the MTV youth culture.
At the same time one has to considered hundreds of legitimate dowry cases and also the ruination of a women's life once divorced. In our society the chances of divorced women getting decently married again is almost impossible whereas the same is not the case for guys always.
Mother is a word of respect,so i sh'nt use it for her.it is she who burdened my innocent father under the dowry laws.i shall cointact this org.. wait for effort and then comment
People have asked with regards to Sangya Balya Organisations Details in this organisation.
Sangya Balya is Registered as Non Government organisation in Banglore . Contact Details Tel No: 91-80-56969850 email : 1. victimsof498A@rediffmail.com 2. victimsof498@rediffmail.com website : www.sangyabalya.org ( planned launch date 1st january for the basic information and free legal advice )
It is currently operating from Mahalaxmi Layout and holds Biweekly meetings in different parts of the city.
With Reference to having branches in Mumbai,Delhi. SangyaBalya is open to opening affiliates and some of our volunteers will help any committed group of people in these cities set up their procedures, partners, research organisation. It is 6 months and 200 cases ahead of you
Some shocking statistics for all of you For unmarried men and Women the rate of suicide is the same 11 per lakh but when the men get married their rate climbs up to 17 per per lakh but it remains the same as 11 per lakh for women . Should we assume marriage is death trap for men then ?.
Sanghya Balya can be contacted on 080-56969850 or e mail at victimsof498a@rediffmail.com. The organisation cannot be termed as only of Victimised Men -Rather it is one for the whole family as more that 50% of the victims of this draconian law are women(mothers -in law and sisters in law),the aged elderly relatives of the husband and voiceless infants/minors caught in the aftermath of this misused law . This organisation is therefore for the protection of the very institution of mariage from manipulative wifes and their conniving relatives.
All right thinking and just men and women of all ages please provide support to this organisation.
I know of my freinds case where the girl and her arrogant family went ahead and filed a 498A registered against the husband and family -even relatives of the husband no where living with the husband was included and a false harrasment case was filed against all of them - the police registered the case so easily -when it was so easy for the police to figure out that several aspects of the FIR were totally false -like for instance NO medical records to substantiate or a hospital with a name that never existed anywhere were the wife said it was supposed to be.
i have undergone the same harassment being one of the family member, not at all involved in any kind of misbehaviour towards the bride. though the bride and her parents had filed a case against all the family members.it took seven years to prove that we were not guilty.
such is the virtue of IPC 498A?
i hope somebody will come up from judiciary one day to provide a concrete solution for 498A.
498 A is a very unjust law - a cunning wife can easily lock up her husband and in laws -Its as easy as ordering a dosa in a hotel.
It is nothing but a tool for blackmail and threat in the hands of conniving and manipulating women & police.
Why dont the courts order exemplary punishment to the the wife,in laws and lawyers who misuse this law - that should serve as a deterrent to manipulative wifes and in - laws.
