Even suicide note of a man is not enough reason for law to move its rear, is well-exemplified in the case below, where a young man committed suicide to escape from wife’s threat of false dowry case against him and his family. Will police wake up when men in their own family and relations commit suicide in similar situation? Maybe they will, but it will be too late anyway. When a man lets another man die by treating him as disposable asset, he increases his own probability of being disposed off by society one day! It’s all about collective karma… …[Continue Reading]
Movie masala in dowry case, coming to a theatre near you
http://movies.indiatimes.com/news-gossip/news/Tina-Ambanis-Niece-Battered-For-Dowry/articleshow/6137952.cms The niece of one of India’s wealthiest women filed a complaint of dowry-related assault with the Gamdevi police last week. Mana met and married Arup Chatterjee, 44, in Delhi on November 27, 1996, after a brief courtship. According to her complaint, that was the start of all her troubles. She alleged that Arup wanted all the baratis to be ferried by a private airplane and also expected a Rolex, neither of which materialised. In the complaint, Mana added that Arup often hit her after getting drunk and even tried to kill her on several occasions. She further alleged …[Continue Reading]
Dowry givers to be prosecuted – Delhi sessions court
For people used to the lawlessness where you bribe your way out of everything from jumping a red light, to getting a driver’s license; this will come as a shock! However, it is nothing but application of the grand-old law called Dowry Prohibition Act of 1961, which is followed in breach mostly. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/77747/dowry-givers-should-prosecuted-court.html New Delhi, Jun 27 (PTI) Observing that the anti-dowry law has been reduced to a ”paper tiger” due to the bride’s family giving away dowry in many cases, a court here said they also need to be prosecuted like the groom’s family to eliminate the social evil. …[Continue Reading]
Minister openly give mass dowry, will he get prosecuted?
The law is an ass, or maybe the law is only in the book. Even though dowry prohibition act is decades old, the law book is not to be opened and eyes are to be kept shut when a minister openly distributes dowry and even names it ‘Dahej Vitran Kendra’ (Dowry distribution centre) http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=37343 By Our Staff Reporter Sagar, June 2: Madhya Pradesh Panchayats and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargav is again embroiled in controversy for spending crores while simultaneously solemnising the wedding of more than 1,000 women under the Mukhya Mantri Kanyadan Yojana. Gifts worth crores, collected from government …[Continue Reading]
Wife prefers to level dowry harassment charge than attempt to murder!
How do we know a false /cooked dowry harassment story from a true one? Well, here is one for you. It would have been enough if the wife left things at all the stories about ill-treatment, mental cruelty blah blah, but she could not stop at that, could she? So she added the story that husband tried to smother her with a pillow. And you are complaining only about pimples and dowry harassment to Deccan Herald! Just admit that so far you are unsuccessful at extorting any money, and going to newspaper is the final trump card you think you …[Continue Reading]
SC Judgment: Proving cruelty must for conviction under IPC 304-B
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/70500/sc-prove-cruelty-dowry-death.html New Delhi,May 19, pti: The Supreme Court has held that husband or other family members can be convicted for dowry death only if it is proved that the wife was subjected to cruelty or harassment in pursuit of the demand and not on mere presumption. The apex court said Section 304-B (dowry death) can be invoked against the accused only if there is material evidence to support the allegation and not on mere presumption that the victim died within seven years of marriage. Under Section 304-B read with Section 113-B of the Indian Evidence Act, a husband and his …[Continue Reading]
Will the real opposition to dowry stand up please?
This is the response received to an RTI application filed on Women and Child Development Ministry. According to this RTI response, WCD ministry has not spent a single Rupee on any advertisement campaign against dowry, or extravagant marriages in Apr 2009-Mar 2010. RTI response is also given in PDF format below: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2371641/RTIs_SIFF/WCD-RTI-anti-dowry-exp-marriage.pdf This is the same WCD ministry which had bungled and carried out an advertisement issued on the occasion of the National Girl Child Day that carried a photograph of the former Pakistan Air Force chief, Tanvir Ahmed Mahmood. So it seems they WCD does not spend any money …[Continue Reading]
Woman pesters her own parents for dowry, rebuked
This is the reality of all social evils, when people want to live off someone else, and the name ‘tradition’ is given to such social practices to paper over the uncomfortable truth that we are and becoming even more of a decadent society. And the feminist brigade still wants everyone to believe that only the patriarchal males are responsible for such evils as dowry. They want to escape from the fact that they themselves are responsible for it, but can’t face it because it hits them directly in face of their so called women empowerment. The news below: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Woman-pesters-her-own-parents-for-dowry-rebuked/Article1-539941.aspx It …[Continue Reading]
Real reason why government wants ‘dowry evil’ to continue!
When there were few deaths of students due to ragging, there was much outcry and government showed its resolve to put an end to ragging by establishing an anti-ragging helpline. See the information on anti-ragging helpline on website of department of higher education below: http://www.education.nic.in/UHE/Antiragging.asp Further the complaints on the number can be made in 10 languages. Now our government is really ashamed of dowry deaths as per news below: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-71390.html New Delhi, Mar 16 : Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar today said dowry death is a shame and a blot on the society. Ms Kumar’s observation came during Question …[Continue Reading]
Delhi court says give proof of income before registering dowry case
Finally, some judges are getting the hang of things how false dowry cases are filed… or more likely they knew it all along, but now some are showing the courage to go against this dowry tamasha which does great injustice to hapless husband and his family members. http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/newdelhi/Spent-a-lot-on-wedding-Show-us-proof-Court/Article1-506462.aspx New Delhi, February 07, 2010 Planning a lavish wedding? Just keep the tax-returns ready. A city court judge has asked a woman and her parents to disclose their source of money for arranging a wedding that reportedly cost them Rs 60 lakh, on Saturday. Moreover, the court refused to register a criminal …[Continue Reading]
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