http://www.financialexpress.com/news/not-just-daughtersinlaw-maneka-gandhi-says-domestic-violence-act-must-protect-mothersinlaw-too/1272723 “Many cases have been brought to the notice of the minister where elderly women have been misbehaved with or even tortured by their sons and daughters-in-law for property or other reasons. Even when the case is genuine, no action can be taken against the daughters-in-law under the law. The minister feels that the law should protect all women, regardless of their relationship with the oppressor. We are exploring legal options and will move an amendment soon,” said a source close to Maneka. In India, abuse of mothers in laws by daughters in law may be wished away as utter nonsense by those brought up on diet of Ekta Kapoor’s TV serials, but the … [Read more...] about Proposal to amend Domestic Violence (DV) Act to protect mothers in law
Law Making
Proposed private bill for 40% or more maintenance to abandoned wives
Some MRAs have discovered that apart from IrBM (Irretrievable breakdown of marriage) bill which got passed in Rajya Sabha (but not Lok Sabha) during UPA rule, a new private bill is waiting to be introduced for discussion in Lok Sabha. The link to PDF is given below, and a text conversion of the PDF is given later. The bill proposes to define a category called abandoned wives and proposes to give maintenance not less than 40% of husbands’ income to such wives. This is additional clause to be added to Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and will not disturb existing maintenance clauses HMA 24 and 25. http://164.100.24.219/BillsTexts/LSBillTexts/asintroduced/778LS.pdf Provided that in no case the amount of maintenance granted under this section shallbe less than two-fifths of … [Read more...] about Proposed private bill for 40% or more maintenance to abandoned wives
Rape by women, and why gender biased laws are evil
Two newspaper articles below show the reality of rape by women. Anyone in Indian government or legislature who is making laws only to protect women must be having their eyes closed, or waiting for a near and dear one to be sexually abused or raped by a woman, before they admit reluctantly to it. Interesting point is: the feminists always protest against making sexual abuse laws to be gender neutral. If the same logic was applied to murder statistics, then murder laws should be applicable only against males. Because in India, more than one lakh people are murdered every year and 90 % are male. More than two lakh people die in accidents and 85% are male. So if feminists’ logic of using statistics to push for gender biased laws was true, then laws related to murder should apply only to … [Read more...] about Rape by women, and why gender biased laws are evil