Recently the Law Commission was once again tasked with the job of reviewing 498a , and once again recommending if this needed to be changed. However the interesting thing is the stand that the media has taken on this whole issue. From the type of media reports of the media a few salient points are amply clear.
Media was thoroughly enjoying the gender war:- Innocent men going to jail, Mothers and sisters being imprisoned, Men coming out with a sense of vengeance. Some men creating ingenious methods like filing cases for giving dowry or thousands of dharnas and press conferences taking place on 498a all made for excellent masala news which the media seemed to enjoy. There is a sense of dissatisfaction in the media that these will cease of 498a becomes billable and people stop suffering. Let us further analyze this paragraph further.
Media’s agenda of family breaking may fail:- Lets face it, media loves to see breaking families. Not only does breaking families leads to more spicy news like increasing crime, breaking families brings immense financial gain to the media and its advertisers. How ? Here is how ….
Superb portrayal of the typical social attitudes towards issues of domestic violence.
DV is NOT gender specific… Anyone and everyone can be a victim of DV in home, every human being in a domestic relationship deserves protection against the perpetrator!
A short film by Rishiraj Mistry challenging the social stereotypes around genders. This movie won the 1st Runner Up at “Hot Shorts 3″ competition. See it to hear it. … Read More
Like a Lamb put before a Tiger, Shoaib Malik has been put in front of the anti-male Indian establishment!
Little does he ( nor Sania Mirza ) know about the anti-male and corrupt and ineffective Indian establishment, nor does he understand organised Indian women.
Of course, you might say, it is fascism, if all marriages disputed are seen as criminal disputes. And clearly, Shoaib has not inflicted cruelty nor asked dowry from Ayesha, who claims to be married to him. This man is in fact a victim of cheating, conspiracy and mental harassment.
So, the government must make section 498a bailable and non-cognizable and amend CrPC 113 to make the accused “innocent till proven guilty” and also punish those who misuse the law to torture innocent people.
Secondly, the lady suffers from Obsessive Compulsive PERSONALITY DISORDER – a common disorder that ( like other disorders, is unrecognized in the media ), runs in families. Some features of this behavioral disorder, are manipulation, aggression, depression, lying, irresponsible behavior and a life that has generally no purpose.
On one hand the Supreme Court and the media are promoting pre-marital sex, and other
hand they convert any relationship problem – that too with a Personality Disorder – into a criminal offense. This is absurd.
Five years ago, a few months before his first semester at Ohio State, Nick (not his real name) lost his virginity on the floor of a dark living room, surrounded by sleeping party goers. “She told a lot of people she was going to fuck me,” says Nick, 23, sitting in a booth at the Blue Danube, a greasy spoon in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. “She gave me a lot of vodka and she did it. I was barely awake. But I remember — it was so weird — she said, ‘Look, I’m either going to fuck you or go to the kitchen and fuck a cucumber.’”
He was too drunk to remember the hows of what followed, but he knows there was no condom, no consent, and, at first, no problem.
The next morning, “I woke up and I’m like, ‘Holy shit! I must be in love,’” Nick says. “And she says, ‘Get real. I was just fucking you.’”
Upon suffering a variety of emotional problems Nick sought counseling, and it was then that he came to believe that in losing his virginity he had become not a man but a victim of rape.
And the chairperson, Dr. Vyas cites, “lack of manpower” as excuse.
Now, already the existing short manpower is spending extra-money, one can only imagine the splurge with more “manpower”.
When will the NCW stop fooling the nation?
Already the uncalled for “Male-Hatred” that the NCW is spreading is contributing to 58000 husbands committing suicide every year and every 9 mins a married man succumbing to social injustices spearheaded by the NCW.
Not only that in the last 5 years (2004-2008) 160,00o innocent women (mothers, sisters and other female relatives of husbands) have been arrested, without trial or investigation, under the dubious Section 498A – totally unconstitutional law and subject to widespread misuse.
Has the NCW been created to spread injustices in the society?
Looks like WCD (Ministry of Women and Child Development) has closed their email shop suddenly. Till recently this official mail ID <wcd@nic.in> was working fine… But today I suddenly got this bounce back from them:
From: Mail Delivery System <MAILER-DAEMON@vastu12internal.nic.in>
Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:31 PM
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
To: <my mail id>
The following message to <wcd@nic.in> was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.4.7 – Delivery expired (message too old) [Default] 451-’4.2.1 mailbox temporarily disabled: wcd@nic.in‘
I’m not alone… a friend of mine got a similar one too:
From: Mail Delivery System <MAILER-DAEMON@vastu9internal.nic.in>
Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:14 PM
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
To: <his mail id>
The following message to <wcd@nic.in> was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.4.7 – Delivery expired (message too old) [Default] 451-’4.2.1 mailbox temporarily disabled: wcd@nic.in‘
