Exclusive HOLI Discounts!
Get Courses and Combos at Upto 50% OFF!
Upgrad
LCI Learning

Share on Facebook

Share on Twitter

Share on LinkedIn

Share on Email

Share More


(Guest)

False Domestic Violence Figures exposed - Part III

Part III  - Soft Copy Proof


Title: A Special Report :  Fifty Domestic Violence Myths


The below link is a PDF file format containing 18 pages and when a prudent person goes over the PDF file it will shatter the Myth on how in-accurate the Study of Domestic Violence in North Eastern State of India is.


The link to the soft copy file is attached as well as the soft copy is attached with this thread posting too !


https://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARreport-50-DV-Myths.pdf


PS.: Domestic Violence Act, 2005 is heavily biased not only towerd Indian Hisband but towards female members of husband's side.  In the garb of providing protection, this legislation in fact, strikes at the very foundation of marriage by promoting intolerance and encouraging unnecessary litigation even for petty domestic disputes. The law is based on a totally wrong notion and assumes men as the sole perpetrators of domestic violence. This is altogether a wrong impression and only confirms the gender bias in favor of women created by this law. "Giving of such sweeping legal powers to women while withholding protection to male victims is tantamount to systematic legal victimization of men ". The law is wholly gender specific and rules out any possibility of domestic violence against a man . The law confers rights in a woman without imposing any liability, while a man is overburdened with discriminative liabilities with total denial of rights.


The slack drafting of this law will allow cunning and unscrupulous women to teach a lesson to any of her male relative at her sole behest. Moreover any such frivolous claims will be treated as words of god or gospel of truth by virtue of this law . This has virtually empowered all women to punish men at their will. This law not only recognizes but also gives legal sanctions to apprehensions no matter how insignificant and fizzy, they are. The mere belief of a person, even a stranger, will be sufficient for reporting the matter to the protection officers. It can very easily become a weapon for women to extort money, as in such cases usually the police arrests the husband and in-laws. "This arbitrary decision of the police to favor the daughter-in-law is a newfound ethic, to protect the rights and liberalization of women, even though it violates the principles of natural justice ". A bizarre aspect of this Act is that it does not distinguish between actual abuse and threat of abuse and gives equal weightage to even a likelihood of abuse . Also in regards to the notion of "emotional abuse, insults and verbal abuse" enshrined in the Act, the terms in itself are extremely relative and subjective, often depending on one's mindset and shockingly, the husband does not have any recourse in case of any abuse by the wife.


Unlike other women protection laws, the Act almost gives a legal sanction to extortion of money by women under the guise of economic abuse . Refusal to pay any sum of money for whatsoever reason will attract the provisions of this law. Non-payment of rental related to the shared household will also constitute economic abuse even if the husband himself is devoid of sufficient resources or even if he is in jail. Another pertinent laxity that can be pointed out as also recently reiterated by the Supreme Court is that the definition of "shared household" as mentioned in the Act is vague and laid that the parents independent property in which the husband does not have any share will not amount to "shared household".


Read more:
Various studies in India and other countries have shown that even men suffer domestic violence at the hands of women. Anne Bransdon, "The Nature of Domestic Violence Against Men"; Charles E. Corry and at al, "Controlling Domestic Violence Against Men" Patricia Pearson, "When She Was Bad - Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence"Amjad Maruf, Domestic Violence Act, 2005 - A recipe for broken marriages and relationships, November 03, 2006 www.sulekha.com). S.B. Ghosh, "Contextualizing Domestic Violence", BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN INDIA (Rinki Bhattacharya ed., New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2004) at 54. Srilata Swaminathan, On the Protect of Women from Domestic Violence Act (www.cpiml.org ) [Most authors wriing on gender biasness of Domestic Violence themselves are renowned International and National Women ! ]



Learning

 0 Replies


Leave a reply

Your are not logged in . Please login to post replies

Click here to Login / Register