When a woman comes on this forum with certain legal queries, more particularly related to Section 498 A, maintenance cases, DV cases, some male members start to shout at her and insult her in all possible means and also become judgmental and start to write judgments about her case. Their outbursts do not stop there and they start to flay and lampoon the advocates empathising with her case and giving proper legal advice, attributing the vested commercial interest to them. Due to these black sheep and their dirty comments, a large number of very experienced and adroit, acumen advocates stopped to come to this site to offer their immaculate and precious pieces of advise and this website became poorer by their absence and if this trend continues, this website will become a deluge of misogynists like SIFF and 498A forums and it will become as redundant as they. The hon’ble High Court of Delhi has also taken very serious note of the onslaught perpetrated by a section of gender biased society which includes administrators, advocates, court officials and at the top judges against the women. The observations are worth noting and hence I highlight the some relevant portion of the judgment, while attaching the entire judgment.
10. A Judge is supposed to analyze the facts and evidence appearing before him in an impartial and objective manner. While doing so, in the case of gender issues, a Judge is supposed to be sensitive regarding key points, which inter-alia, would be as under:
(i) Though women and girls comprise more than half the population, they remain disadvantaged in many areas of life.
(ii) Stereotypes and assumptions about women’s lives can unfairly impede them and might frequently undermine equality.
(iii) Care must be taken to ensure that our experiences and aspirations as women or of other women, are not taken as representative of the experiences of all women.
(iv) Factors such as ethnicity, social class, disability status and age affect women’s experience and the types of disadvantage to which they might be subject.
(v) Women may have particular difficulties participating in the Justice system, for example, because of child care issues.
(vi) Women’s experiences as victims, witnesses and offenders are in many respects different to those of men.
