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Legal Terrorism of India take away one more Husband's Life. When
our Law maker will wake up? or they are wating for the day when people
have to Burn the buses/Block the roads/Make the Strike in all the Jobs
and instead of killing themself will start kill the Legal Terrorist?
Lucknow, February 6
A 30-year-old man, Pushkar Singh, committed suicide by hanging himself
from a ceiling fan at his home in Jankipuram area of Vikas Nagar, on
Wednesday. In a suicide note, addressed to the
Allahabad High Court, Singh alleges that he was framed in a dowry case
by his wife Vinita and her relatives, due to which he had to spend time
in judicial custody for four months. The Vikas Nagar police registered a case later in the day. "During
the investigation, if we find it necessary to question Vinita, we will
definitely record her statement," said BP Singh, Station Officer, Vikas
Nagar. Pleading innocence and holding his wife
responsible for the extreme step he was taking, Singh's note states: "I
was sent to jail after a false dowry case was lodged against me by
Vinita and her family, who had demanded Rs 14 lakh as a compensation.
Neither my father nor I had seen such a big amount in our lives. We
even sold our house to contest the case." According to reports, Singh married Vinita about two years ago and lived in Allahabad since. Early last year, his wife left him and started living with her family. A
case under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 498 (A) (cruelty by
husband or relatives of husband) and 504 (intentional insult) was
lodged by Vinita and her relatives before she left him. In the note, Singh wrote he was in the Naini Central Jail from "September 29 to December 24, 2007". Shishupal
Singh, Singh's brother-in-law, said he was disturbed ever since he
released from jail. The court case constantly haunted him. "After
he was bailed out, he was living with his mother, younger sister and a
physically-challenged brother in a rented house in Jankipuram." The
family had their own house in Indira Nagar, which was recently sold to
meet the legal expenses, he added. "While he searched
for a job, he drove a three-wheeler for a living. A few days ago, he
received a notice from the court and since then, he stopped stepping
out of the house," he said. In the note, Singh further
wrote: "I would also like to request Vinita not to harass my family in
future. It was my mistake to marry her and I am repenting it by
sacrificing my life."
Every
4 minutes in India an innocent person (who never demanded any dowry or
money from the wife/daughter-in-law) including old mothers/pregnant
sisters/children are facing false and fabricated Dowry cases and sent
behind bars without any evidence (since no evidence is required and
498A is non-bailable). Despite the Law commission
and various judges' recommendations to make 498A a bailable offence,
our lawmakers have not made any effort to save the innocent people who
are being victimized by the abusive women and their families. We
must stop this legal terrorism (as termed by the Supreme Court of
India) by our radical women organizations that openly advocates and
legitimizes adultery by the wife and killing of the unborn child
(against the husband's wishes).
Further Reference:
Stop Legal Terrorism! Save the Indian Husbands!! Press Release Beginning
year 2000, Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF) has been incessantly
working to spread awareness regarding the growing misuse of draconian
anti-dowry laws like IPC Section 498A against Indian Husbands and
their families. SIFF has been constantly urging the Government to make
amendments to the laws to ensure that misusers of the provisions are
punished and innocent citizens are protected from legal terrorism. SIFF
has been campaigning to end denigration of men, devaluation of their
lives and violation of their basic human rights. The
Government, however, has not taken any steps to address the above
mentioned problems, forcing thousands of men to end their lives.
According to the National Crime Bureau, the number of suicides by males
in every age group studied outweighs the number of suicides by females,
in the recent years. In the year 2005 alone, nearly twice as many
married men (52,483), compared to married women (28,186), committed
suicide, unable to withstand verbal, emotional, economic and physical
abuse and legal harassment. While
every death of a young married woman is converted into a case of dowry
death leading to immediate arrest of the husband and in-laws,
accompanied by media-hype, male-bashing and breast-beating, large-scale
suicides of men do not cause any outrage in the society. Media finds no
incentive in highlighting the truth about abused men. People in power
find no financial or political mileage to be gained from helping
battered men. The
recent demise of Pushkar Singh is one of the countable few cases that
has at least caught some media attention. Sadly, even though his
suicide note bears evidence to the fact that he was financially and
emotionally destroyed because of false criminal cases filed against him
and his family by his wife, she has not even been called in for
questioning by the police. One can only imagine the fate of cases where
men take their lives silently, leaving no note behind. Deaths of these
men make for the brief stories we often read in newspapers stating that
a certain man "killed himself due to family issues or financial
problems". Pushkar
Singh represents thousands of men, whose lives have literally been
destroyed in the name protective provisions for women and due to lack
of equivalent protection for harassed men. While our elected
representatives are busy introducing and pushing more anti-male,
anti-family provisions in the Lok Sabha, SIFF pays tribute to Pushkar
Singh by organizing a "Shok Sabha" on (Date). On
this sad occasion, SIFF vows to not let the sacrifices and pain of men
like Pushkar Singh go in vain. SIFF calls upon all men and women to
protest against this saga of human rights abuses against men. SIFF
demands that all protective provisions be made gender neutral and all
punishments and penalties crime-based irrespective of gender. SIFF
demands that misusers of women-protection laws be severely punished.
SIFF also demands a Ministry of Men's Welfare to
address present day challenges faced by men and to prevent more men in
despair from following the footsteps of Pushkar Singh.
Husbands can't take it any more Kajari Bhattacharya
KOLKATA,
Feb. 10: Married men can't take it anymore. Rising prices, mounting
responsibilities and their wives implicating them in dowry cases is
driving men to suicide. The latest data released by the National Crime
Records Bureau (NCRB 2006), shows that the ratio of married men to
married women who committed suicide in 2006 is 5:3. The 2006 report
also states that the national ratio of men to women committing suicide
is 64:36.
The NCRB report
further states that a high pendency was observed in Dowry Prohibition
Act (43.6% each) in 2006. A total of 7.8 per cent cases of Cruelty by
Husband or Relatives were found false or related to mistake of law.
A
30-year-old man, Pushkar Singh, committed suicide by hanging himself
from a ceiling fan at his home in Jankipuram area of Vikas Nagar in
Lucknow. In his suicide note, he wrote: "I was sent to jail after a
false dowry case was lodged against me by my wife Vinita and her
family, who demanded Rs 14 lakh as compensation. Neither my father nor
I had seen such a big amount in our lives. We even sold our house to
contest the case."
Singh is just one of the
several thousand men who committed suicide after being implicated
falsely in dowry cases by their wives and in-laws. Save Indian Family
Foundation, a countrywide network of support groups for such men and
their families, has been fighting for men's rights to be included in
the national legal framework for a long time.
"We
come across such cases of men who turn suicidal after their wife and
in-laws try to extort money from them after filing a false case under
IPC 498A, frequently. We do our best to help such people through
counselling. But it's the Indian legal framework, which considers the
rights of wives, but not that of men, their mothers and sisters, that
is at fault," said Mr Srinivas Rao, treasurer, SIFF. He cited a case in
which a man from Kalyani attempted suicide after he and his family were
falsely implicated under 498A. "Ultimately, we arranged for a
settlement between the two parties, in which the man had to pay Rs 1.5
lakh to his wife and in-laws," Mr Rao said.
SIFF
says the high ratio of male to female suicides is largely due to
domestic cruelty against men. The NCRB report 2006 says that more men
in the age group of 30 and 44 years committed suicide than those in
other age groups. It was observed that 72.2 per cent of the suicide
victims were married while 20.7 per cent were unmarried. The number of
married men who committed suicide was 55,452 and number of married
women who committed suicide was 29,869 in 2006.
False
cases registered under IPC 498A, which is non-bailable, make it
difficult for complainants who have genuine cases to get justice. The
same NCRB report also states that the proportion of female suicides is
more under dowry disputes.
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