Press release at the time of conference 19th April,
2008 , Press Club of India (Delhi) .
By Gender Human Rights Society ( Regd.) www.ghrs.in

A detailed memorandum regarding the evil DV LAW (
Protection of women from Domestic Violence act , 2005,
effective from Oct 2006) will be given on the day of
press conference to Law ministry, and copy to other
relevant officials. Some of our demands about DV Law
in short are .

* Service providers and protection officers should be
neutral and not women rights activists only ( Rule
2006 ) .
* Protect Batra Vs Batra Supreme court Judgent. Do not
through old persons out of own houses by DV Law.
* Scrap DV Law, there are already sufficient legal
provisions. Or review of DV Law by including
organizations fighting for preventing misuse of bad
women Laws.
* Remove section 19 , that allows all men of
costiliest house a women lived anytime in past,  to be
thrown on roads, by saying potentiality of verbal
abuse. Presently extra maintenance for renting same
standard house is already given by 125 CrPC .
* Remove maintenace from DV Law section 20 , there are
existing maintenance Laws . People now are wasting
time in fighting 3 maintenance cases. (Meet victims at
press conference) .
* Remove section 22,  money for mental trouble
complaint leads to false complaints .
* Complainant women never have to sign in DV Law, this
encourages fasle allegations. To hide this and other
important facts from anyone reading the DV Law a few
times only, like parliament members or press,
elaborate arrangements have been made by the evil
drafters of the DV Law.  Women should sign the
complaint .
* As per rule 2006.14.5 a man is not even allowed to
speak his point of view. Remove this, infact rewrite
rule 14 .
* Plug loopholes that make it easy to illegally change
the Domestic Incident report(DIR)  in DV Law,
introduce a register to keep record of DIR.

Delhi High Court Judge R.K Gauba correctly says
Domestic Violence Law a recipe for disaster in his
detailed article in practical Lawyer. We salute his
courage to take on the radical feminists agents in
press .

Gender Laws should not be drafted by Ministry of Women
and Child Development but should be drafted by Law
ministry , in consultation with Judges( who are among
the best persons to know and suggest about Laws) , and
organizations fighting against misuse of these radical
feminists wrong Laws  should also be involved .

Giving legal rights to women , and responsibilities to
men, is not the way to do justice to them. Such
biased, unequal treatment only leads to conflict and
resentments. These Laws have caused harm to children ,
by forcing 1/3 of children in many countries to live
in fatherless society, we can learn from their
mistakes.

Should we allow wrong radical feminists laws like IPC
Section 498A( Dowry) , DV,  destroy the only source of
social security we have in India, which is the family?
Should we hope that our Government will invent a
better system than family to take care of the
countless single mothers, fatherless children and
helpless senior citizens it is creating, and if so, at
what additional cost to the society? How many more
innocent lives should we sacrifice before our
Government and law enforcement system take steps to
end legal terrorism of radical feminists new Law
proposals and promote family-friendly laws. Which
protect victims of Legal terrorism ?.

Sandeep Bhartia,
President
Ph : 9971117829



Indraprastha Senior Citizens Welfare Association
(regd.) is a well known Institution serving the cause
and welfare of its 600 Senior citizens members of East
delhi .

Members are very much apprehensive and feel agitated
on the two Laws recently passed favouring the women.
As a request Senior Citizens in the fag end of their
lives suffer for no involvement of theirs in domestic
violence .

1.Particularly the recently passed Law “Protection of
women from Domestic Violence 2005 ( effective from
october 2006) , (DV Law in short), is a cause of great
concern, old persons save during their peak period of
life to make a house, so that they may live peacefully
in their old age. It is really regrettable and also
painful that due to feminists new Laws they are being
forced to leave their own houses by their own
daughters-in-laws.
2.It appears that one of the aims of Domestic Violence
Law was to encourage the young women to break the
marriage on some flimsy grounds and get the house of
their old Parents-in-Laws .Law should be made to save
the marriage and bring peace and happiness in the
family.
This has been made possible by section 17 that allows
a women to enter costiliest house she ever lived in
past  , and then by section 19, through all men out of
the house, irrespective of who is the owner of the
house.  This way old persons houses are also in
trouble.
Honourable Supreme court correctly said in Batra Vs
Batra Judgement That
'''''this will lead to chaos ... is absurd . It is
well settled that any interpretation which leads to
absurdity should not be accepted. “...
.... wife is 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 .
3.It has been observed and seen by many false cases
instituted against the husbands by certain
daughter-in-law, for reasons known to them, in the
pretext of section 498a ( Dowry Law) , they are
torturing their husbands and old parents-in-law. Now
in the changing scenerio of the family, old parents
have no say in the affairs of their young wards. But
still they are brought in picture at the time of
violence and tortured for no fault of theirs .
4.The misuse of 498a (Dowry Law) is well known and
becoming more and more. The world Health Organization,
in its report on India clearly stated section 498a, as
one of the major reasons for the “Increasing Abuse of
the Elderly in India”

Hence we appeal to the Govt. of India and Law makers
to keep in mind the welfare and peace of the old
persons who can close their eyes any moment. Let them
at least die in peace. We also request the supreme
court to not let implementation of these draconian
Laws, which are against basic human rights, and which
may bring the upheaval in the minds and shatter the
society .


H. Bhisham Pal
President
Indraprashta Senior Citizen Welfare Association .
53 I.P Extn, Delhi 110092
Phone : 22246807