Indraprashtha Seniour citizens welfare association, working for senior citizens . Activities include .......
Note for the press conferenceSenior citizens and women against radical feminists New LAWs .
We would Like to bring to your kind notice the torture of old persons by 2 radical feminists Laws.
1. Particularly the recently passed Law Protection of Women from Domestic Violence 2005 ( effective from Oct 2006 ), ( DV Law in Short ) is a cause of great concern .
Old Persons Save full life to make a house so that they live peacefully in old age . It is painful that due to feminists new Laws they are being forced to leave their own houses by daughter-in-laws. It is shameful that the Law makers are causing so much pain in old age .
* Looks as if one of the aims of DV Law was to give incentive to women to break marriage, by saying, break marriage and you can enter the costiliest house of husbands friend or relatives by section 17 and through all men out of the costliest house by section 19 . Supreme court correctly said
this will lead to chaos ... is absurd . It is well settled that any interpretation which leads to absurdity should not be accepted. ...
22. As regards Section 17(1) of the Act, in our opinion the wife is only entitled to claim a right to residence in a shared household, and a 'shared household' would only mean the house belonging to or taken on rent by the husband, or the house which belongs to the joint family of which the husband is a member.
23. No doubt, the definition of 'shared household' in Section 2(s) of the Act is not very happily worded, and appears to be the result of clumsy drafting, but we have to give it an interpretation which is sensible and which does not lead to chaos in society
This Batra Vs Batra Supreme court Judgement of DV Law is to be protected, to save old persons houses , so that DV Law is not applicable to houses of old persons .
It is sad that the Organizations like Lawyers collective are asking for review of this Supreme court Judgment . As you will understand anyone saying that DV Law should be applicable to houses of Old person, will be considered anti old persons and parents.
Torturing husbands parents by DV Law provisions is wrong . Even working women are asking house and compensation, and maintenance from retired father-in-law . Law makers should plug such wrongs in the DV Law. Or better scrap the Law. There are sufficient provisions in the existing Laws .
2. Also the misuse of 498a ( Dowry ) law is well known.
The World Health Organization, in its report on India clearly cited Section 498A as one of the major reasons for the Increasing Abuse of the Elderly in India.
Many parents and sisters and brothers are heart-broken to see their sons and brothers lose their youth, their health, their jobs, all their earnings, and sometimes even their lives, as they are mercilessly tortured by their estranged wives, aided by lawyers, police and the judiciary. Some women and old couples have ended their lives unable to bear the humiliation of being accused and arrested, and the trauma of making endless trips around the courts .
This Law should be made bailable . In case of matrimonial conflict, divorce and maintenance is OK. But sending husbands relatives to Jail is not good .
Govt. of India should save society from the radical feminists new Law proposals. More then 1/3 of children in many countries are harmed by living in fatherless society . Lets not let these new Law proposals harm our children and society also in same way . | 