Here are links to some well written articles by Madhu Kishwar who is a woman but does not call herself a feminist, so we could trust her couldn’t we? Destined to Fail: Inherent flaws in anti-dowry legislation Destined to Fail: Inherent flaws in anti-dowry legislation – PDF format Another article with similar theme but much more detailed:Violence against Women: Good practices in combating and eliminating violence against women
Results of SIF survey in Bangalore shown on TV
Video 1 summary:Survey of 1100 husbands from Jan 2008 to Apr 2009 in Bangalore, India. 42.3% false Dowry 498A cases against IT people in Bangalore. Case of Bala Murugan, SIF PRO Virag on need for gender neutral laws. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRxeEtE9rVk Video 2 summary:Shocking Statistics – 25 divorces being filed every day in Bangalore – mostly by women. Financial independence said to be main reason. SIF PRO Virag explains methodology of survey. SC lawyer Varun Goswami gives views on misuse of 498A. He says 90% of 498A settled before finalization of trial. Extortionary claims made to settle cases. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l5qGnXN0VU Video 3 summary:SIF …[Continue Reading]
Using RTI against police and law enforcement authorities
Here is example of using complaint to vigilance department for lack of proper process during police investigation: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saveindianfamily/message/137577 Here is another thread on SIF giving various people’s success / result of complaining against police vigilance department: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saveindianfamily/message/138866 Template for getting RTI info from police about a particular crime. You can modify the below RTI to change it to crime reports on e.g.: Dowry complaints, 498A complaints, Chain snatching incidents etc. RTI Template to get information on missing children complaints Information on RTI for Hyderabad police:http://www.hyderabadpolice.gov.in/Main/RTI.htm
Templates of various RTI applications
Various good templates are available here: e.g.RTI Template for Complaint agaisnt FIL if he is a Govt. ServantRTI Template for obtaining assets of FIL if he is a Govt. ServantRTI Template for obtaining information from private companiesRTI Template for track record of FILRTI Template for retirement analysis of FIL http://bok498a.blogspot.com/ Information on RTI for Hyderabad police: http://www.hyderabadpolice.gov.in/Main/RTI.htm Template documents for tax evasion petition, RTI etc are available at:http://fightagainst498a.blogspot.com/ Template to get info if someone in opponent party has evaded property tax. With this you can at least force them to pay up the property tax with interest for the previous …[Continue Reading]
Tax Evasion Petition and RTI follow up
In case the woman’s party claims to have given huge amount in dowry, and if they don’t have income to support such amount of dowry, then you can file Tax Evasion Petition (TEP) followed by RTI on TEP to Income tax dept against FIL and dowry givers. Basic idea is to find out how they were able to give so much dowry if they do not have income. In case it comes out from RTI that they did not have so much income then their case will weaken considerably. If they still insist that they gave that much dowry, then …[Continue Reading]
Misc RTI usage
General RTI tactics
Wife denied maintenance under CrPC 125 since she had income earlier
In this case from West Bengal, wife was denied maintenance under CrPC 125 since she had good income earlier and could not give any reasons why she was unable to maintain herself now. Maintenance was denied and court also mentioned the principle of “clean hands” with which party seeking relief has to approach the court. PDF of judgment at link below: rajesh-motwani-maintenance-denied-crpc-125 Main excerpt from judgment is given below: It is a settled principle of law that a party seeking relief must come before the court in clean hands. The petnr could have stated that she earlier had the source …[Continue Reading]
Judgment Delhi court:No maintenance to qualified wife under 24 HMA
This 2007 judgment of Delhi court had denied maintenance to wife under Section 24 of Hindu Marriage Act (HMA). Basically she failed to disclose her own qualifications and that could be construed as coming with “unclean hands” in front of court. As of now, Delhi has a mandatory disclosure of income/expense/asset/liabilities affidavit for all cases filed in family court. Important grounds on which maintenance was rejected: In her entire application the applicant/ wife has no where stated that she is also an engineer graduate in the field of Information Technology and that she also joined the job after her marriage. Those seeking …[Continue Reading]
Significant Judgments on DV Act
DV cannot be applied retrospectively A few judgments relating to the fact that PWDVA, Domestic Violence DV Act cannot be applied for complaints which may have arisen before Domestic Violence act came into force. “It is a fundamental principle of law that any penal provision has no retrospective operation ….”Hyderabad HC Judgment:DV penal provisions can not be applied retrospectively In case below, HC rejected PWDVA application on grounds that the alleged cruelties happened before 1997 and DV victim anyway was staying separately since 1997. The act which came into force in 2005 cannot have retrospective application before 1997. Delhi HC …[Continue Reading]
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