Now Husbands file Dowry cases against wives

Poonam Pandey
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Fed up facing dowry harassment and domestic violence cases from their wives,
husbands are now filing cases of dowry giving on their wives and in-laws. As
per them, since both dowry giving and dowry taking are equal crimes as per
law and their wives have admitted on their own accord that they gave dowry
to their husbands, suitable legal action should be initiated against the
wives as well.

As per Save Family Foundation, it all started in Lucknow with a husband
there filing a case of dowry giving against his wife. Thereafter the trend
caught up with Delhi where, till date, close to 16 husbands have registered
such cases. In some cases, suitable legal action has also been taken. Then
in Bengaluru and Chennai, some husbands got these cases registered. Now this
trend has reached Odisha. This is first time in Odisha. Mithun Kumar, Tarun
Kumar Dass and Arun Dash have registered complaints against their wives and
in-laws in Bhubhaneshwar. They have alleged dowry giving which is a criminal
offense.

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Delhi High Court slaps fine for vexatious maintenance case on already divorced woman

Justice S N Dhingra of Delhi High Court gives a judgment which bars a woman who was having a prior mutually agreed divorce settlement from filing a fresh maintenance case on husband. The interesting part is that court slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on the woman for filing a frivolous and vexatious case. See news below:

http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a110246.html

The Delhi High Court Monday slapped a fine on a woman for contempt, taking serious note of the fact that she had concealed she was employed and continued to claim maintenance from her husband, and filed cases against him despite an undertaking to court.

Justice S.N. Dhingra slapped a fine of Rs.10,000 on Manjit Kaur for concealing the facts from the court and violating the undertaking she gave in another court in Jalandhar that following her divorce she will not file any case against her husband after settlement.

“Where a person after concealing the material facts about her own employment and about the undertaking given to the court, files an application for maintenance just to harass the opposite side (husband), this amounts to violation of undertaking given by her,” the judge said.

The interesting part is that per se the court is not barring woman from filing maintenance, but only referring to violation of a particular clause of the mutual divorce agreement between the ex-couple.

The court also took note of the fact that the woman was working as a teacher in a school in Jalandhar but did not disclose it before the court and claimed maintenance of Rs.3,000 per month.

Despite a final settlement between the two in 2000, the woman filed petitions against her husband and violated the undertaking that she will not harass him or his family members.

The court directed the woman to seek maintenance for herself after her retirement from her present job, and said, “Claim maintenance after disclosing pension and other income and properties to the court which she holds in Delhi or at other places.”

Which means that per se she is not barred from seeking maintenance again. But why even this generous suggestion to claimant wife who is fined by court! See, your honour, one point is that HMA 25 which deals with alimony is not one-sided but gender neutral. So the court could well have advised husband to — “retire from present job, and claim maintenance after disclosing properties and sources of income”.

No bail for accused. What else do we need?

Right, Another whammy by the short sighted people. They are asking for no bail to the ones accused in molestation or rape cases. I think we should say, if anyone is accused just hang them. Yes, that will be much better, coz the people around him/her oh sorry, its only him, coz only men are the problem of this society. Women are always Sita, there hasn’t been any Shurpanakha ever in the world. All women are good and all men are bad. I think it would be better if you start killing boys the moment they are born, coz they are bound to be bad by the time they grow up. Yep, thats much better. Kill the boy child on birth. And then you will have the best possible world.

Phew… Heights of stupidity. Is it really men who are the problem. Do not separate humans into man and woman. It is a person either man or woman who is bad. Do not generalise!

Who is responsible ? Rathore / Legal System

Yes, all are after Rathode, but if you see the big picture it is the legal system is to blame. How do you justify a case to go on for 19 years? You can put all kinds of excuses saying we have so many backlogs or we are short of judges and hence there is no other solution but to postpone/adjourn cases for next date. Is it really the truth? When you see someone is really at fault or is using delaying tactics – can’t the judicial system stop this non-sense. The judicial system should be strong enough to not be taken for a ride by these Rathores.

Bring in change, change the legal system to give quicker turn-around time for cases.  We want the revolution by the people to bring in these kind of changes. Do not wait for “mesiah”, you are your own “messiah”.

Stand up for your rights !!!

Why have law if it is not bringing order?

Hi,

This is my first blog, and I would like to start with a question.
“Why do we have laws, if it is not helping in bringing order?”

The first and foremost reason for having a law in civilisation was to bring order to the society and its workings. But if you see the present situation in India, the law is not for bringing order but it is spreading dis-order and misery in society. All the laws are being highly mis-used by anyone who has the time for it. As a so called common man no one wants to use law even if there is genuine need for it. Only the criminal elements or people with criminal minds are using laws to legally trouble or harass someone against whom they have a grudge.

The wives of today too – When they see that their fancies are not followed to the word, they want to use the laws (lop-sided women centric) for their illegal means and extortion. And this so-called judiciary or the police is helping them to achieve this nefarious motive.

How will this change? It will change only when everyone stands up for their rights and do not give in to this legal terrorism and extortion racket.