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Dowry demand without Harassment is not Crime – Delhi HC

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has held that a solitary demand not followed by any harassment of the wife doesn’t constitute a dowry demand and is not punishable under section 304 B of Indian Penal Code. Justice V K Jain gave the ruling while acquitting three members of a man’s family who had appealed [...]

7 year jail for Marital rape – CJI

Soon Every Husband in India, endup in jail for no reason. This law will give women a weapon of men destruction for FREE, if wife is not happy with husband, even she willingly had sex but next morning she can call Police for marital RAPE.
Who will judge what rape and what is not, for Indian [...]

Failed 498A,Wife,Son held for Murder

GUMLA: Police have arrested wife and son of minor irrigation department assistant engineer Sunil Kumar in connection with the latter’s murder. Kumar’s Srimati Srivastava and eldest son, Sumit, were rounded by Gumla police late on Friday evening from Ranchi’s Argoda Housing Colony in connection with the murder.
Kumar was shot dead at his official residence [...]

Nephew of President of India demanded Dowry ?

President Pratibha Patils nephew Rahul G Patil is under investigation by the Bangalore Police in a dowry harassment case. Hailing from Uttar Pradesh and a resident of Navi Mumbai, Prachi Singh Patil has filed a 498 (A) case against her husband Rahul G Patil and his family in Byappanahalli police station under the jurisdiction of [...]

Protection from 498A for `tortured’ in-laws

A man so afraid of his wife filing a false dowry case against him that he would torture his parents at her behest today earned rare immunity for his family from a domestic violence law said to be loaded against husbands and in-laws.
Justice P.K. Chattopadhyay of Calcutta High Court issued an order barring Beauty Saha, [...]

‘Harassed’ husbands take up cudgels

Mumbai: “Indian male – hapless animal”; “women empowered men unpowered”; “husband not an ATM machine”, “options for Indian male – be henpecked or handcuffed”… these are some of the messages flashed on placards by members of various organisations who had gathered at Azad Maidan on the occasion of International Men’s Day on Thursday, to raise [...]

Abuse of anti dowry law woke Government

New Delhi.’s Anti-dowry law being misused and innocent men are victims of anti-dowry law. देर से ही सही सरकार को इस सच्चाई का अहसास हो गया है लिहाजा धारा 498 A का दुरुपयोग रोकने के लिए गृहमंत्रालय ने अपनी चिंता जाहिर कर दी है। Belated government has realized the truth thus prevent abuse of Section [...]

Men allege misuse of Domestic Violence Act

Men from across the city wore badges that read ‘Husband not an ATM machine’, ‘Alimony kills her real potential’ and the like on Monday to mark the third anniversary of the Protection of Women against Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA) coming into force here.
These men were victims of the misuse of laws like the PWDVA, section [...]

IFF Invitation – 26th Oct 2009, Press Conference against DV

We are inviting all of you to Press Conference we are holding on 26th Oct,2009 at 1.30pm at the Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh, VT (next to Press Club), near VT Station.
(Monday 26th Oct is the Third Anniversary of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act.)
This press conference is a part of our campaign to [...]

Court concerned over misuse of law

A Delhi court has expressed concern over growing propensity to rope in innocent persons as accused in cases relating to cruelty against married women and sought a vigilant approach from lower courts in prosecuting relatives of the accused husband.
“A tendency has emerged to rope in family members of the husband in cases of Section 498A [...]

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