08.29.09
Protector Becomes Predator
Before going into the actual content and theme, I will narrate a brief story here.
Meera and Jai Vardhan are in love and they are going along well. They know each other very well, like each other very much. But then Meera gets a lifetime chance in her career which required her to travel overseas. And this meant a long distance relationship (LDR) between the two. However, imagining the pros and cons, they decide to go for a breakup. Post breakup, Meera heads overseas whereas Jai continues in the same country though they continue to be in touch.
Over a period of time, both Meera and Jai find new partners. However, their hearts stay with each other, of course, without them realizing it. Finally Jai travels to Meera’s country and they spend some time together and enjoy it fully. However, Meera’s boyfriend Vikram proposes her and they get married. Jai realizes what’s he’s losing. Meera realizes it after marriage. And tells Vikram that she cannot live with him and needs to go back to Jai. Vikram lets her go, however, Jai gets a lifetime opportunity in his career and Meera lets him go. After few years, Jai realizes that he cannot live without Meera and comes back to her country and was still under the impression that she is married to Vikram. However, comes to know that Meera had left Vikram just one day after the marriage.
Vikram still loved her.
The above story touches upon a lot of hidden societal attitudes and gender stereotypes which ultimately affected the lives of all the three people – Meera, Jai and Vikram – who are more than characters here as we will see here. They are personified epitomes of today’s youth; torn apart in the cultural warfare between Conservatives and Liberals.
Jai loved Meera very much and never wanted to part from her. He was not ready for the LDR. And when Meera told him about her moving to another country Jai actually breaks down. However, overhyped gender sensitivity and brow-beating by otherwise uncalled for feminists and portrayal of expectations of men as chauvinism had castrated Jai emotionally.
Also the social acceptance of the misandry spread by feminists facilitated the emotional castration of males from which even Jai was not spared. And thus, he could not express his wish to stop Meera when she was going from his life. Any attempt from his side would have called for a lot of pressure on him from the society. All this conversation was going on like a commentary inside Jai’s subconscious mind which made him act against his heart.
Later, when even he realizes that he loves her, he is not able to again express himself because he fears going against a woman’s wishes. Also the possibility of an attempt to rape case or sexual assault could not have been ruled out on Jai had he been assertive of his feelings for Meera.
Again if we look at Vikram – he paid a price for something he did not do. Meera could not balance her past, present and future and Vikram had to let go off his wife for her former lover. Had it been the other way round Vikram would have been booked under the Domestic Violence Act and probably fearing that only he let her go off.
Hence we see that the two men paid the price of the existing male-hatred and they became emotionally numb succumbing to the emotional castration thrust unto men right from the age of six.
At every point it prevented them from being assertive of their feelings or express themselves or be in a position to experience their emotions. And this societal attitude has emerged from the over-protective tendency of the society towards women which has actually made the society forget that even men need to be protected.
And it is not as if Meera had a ball of a time. Because of the social pressure on both Jai and Vikram she could never know who really loved her and whom she really loved ending up in loving Jai and marrying Vikram and spending at least 5-6 years alone without Vikram and not knowing whether Jai will return or not.
The same protection syndrome that had castrated the emotions of the males in her life had predated her as well.
The Protector Became Predator.
Media speaks for SIFF’s demands on Judicial Reforms
08.27.09
The Meaning of Judicial Reforms
Written by Pandurang Katti, Chairman – Save Indian Family Foundation
About Save Indian Family Foundation:
Save Indian Family Foundation, Bangalore is an NGO dedicated to promote the cause of Men’s rights, Gender Equality and Family Harmony. SIFF started as a website on March 10 2005 and now its movement with activities stretching across the country. In its five year SIFF has now around 30000 – 40000 families who have sought succour.
Why Judicial Reforms
Judicial reforms are the need of the Day in the Country. And the Reforms in the Family courts are even more urgent. A person can continue living a “normal” even if faced with criminal matter or been victim of crime in any fashion be it robbery or assault. However when faced with marital breakdown a persons life is put on hold till the verdict. Hence it is imperative that Marital Problem is given the highest priority and overhauling of system is important.
Just two days before there was judgement in Bombay high court where in after 14 years the husband was told that it is perfectly acceptable for a wife to harass him every day by quarrelling over petty and niggling issues or essentially not to meet any expectation that a man may have in marriage
This could have been told at the outset instead of taking 14 years for the same.
There is comprehensive sense that is being developed that a wife can literally get away with anything short of murder. Be it ignoring court orders on visitation , Slapping a husband inside a court premises, assaulting and husband be not granted even the relief of disassociating from the relationship forget about civil relief or criminal complaints. Where as on the other hand without any fault on baseless allegation the entire Legal. Judicial machinery hounds the husband and his family.
What is needed in Judicial Reforms?
Judicial reforms is not about tinkering with a few process it needs overhaul in following direction
Change of Laws: There are two many laws in the country against the husband in civil, criminal and quasi criminal arena which do not have standard procedures of normal laws applied to them examples are the Domestic Violence Act and the Section 498a. There are also multifarious laws for a same relief. There are five laws on maintenance for standard of living from a husband. This needs to change and complete gender equity, equality and fairness be brought about. The laws need to harmonised and equalised by gender.
Change of Procedures, practices, presumptions and guidelines: There are multiple procedures which tend to become procedural harassment of the husband and there families. This should change. The heavy procedure need to be lightened and made more litigant friendly. A key example is on handling cases where in a husband (wife) is from out of station. In such a case the standard practice should be to provide two or three continuous dates so that the out of station person can take leave etc. It has become a procedure for the cases to be transferred to the place of wife’s liking. This should change and the convenience of a working person should be taken into consideration as there is far more stakeholders who need to be aligned for working spouse. To not allow more then 2 interim application would be useful guideline. There is a legal and social presumption which is best described by the Victim Women Criminal Men Syndrome which needs to change and =it’s time for the entire system to get out of this trap.
Change in the current Transparency on dates and estimated dates on the court cases.
In India getting a reservation or attending the courts at a short notice puts a burden on litigants and litigants are clearly interested in knowing when will I get my decision .It is imperative that within 2 months the courts provide a schedule of dates and activity that will be conducted so that the litigant is clearly aware of the stages and phases and prepare accordingly. The judiciary can very take the help of project management expertise of the Ex- litigants for this matter. SIFF is willing to provide this expertise.
USE Technology: Involve litigants in defining the requirements of the computerisation process
Change in Attitude
The judiciary should not expect to be a great sermons speaking from Ivory tower. They should clearly be aware of the difference in Matrimonial relief like divorce or child custody. The shift in attitude for family related cases are more in the nature of I am here to resolve the disputes and allow the parties to live a happy life. Currently there is an attitude that is felt that one should use laws, procedure, guidelines, practices and spurious arguments everything against a husband seeking relief.
That daily mental torture of arguments was not found sufficient for the small relief of merely dissolving the marriage by high court of Mumbai speaks of an attitude which has become completely numb towards the emotional and mental well being requirements of husbands. Such allegations made by women would have been called domestic Violence
A High Court Justice Raghuram of Andhra Pradesh mentioned in the SIFF Seminar in VIZAG that NGOs act as teachers of Judiciary. It is imperative that The judiciary interact with NGOs which do have the welfare of men and their families at hand like SIFF, CRISP, PURE, SFF, SFO etc. to understand and learn the emotional, mental requirements of the husbands as well. There are too many interactions which are focussed on the female gender by the judiciary. It is imperative to understand the needs, feelings, emotions of the male gender as well empathetically by all the actors of the legal system. Ideally the entire family court judges should take one Women’s NGO and one Men’s NGO for review
There is a chance of more harmonious Litigation when the both parties feel that the judge has their best interests in mind and will take care of it. Today, that a judicial officer has the best interest of the husband is neither evident nor visible. There is feeling that there is huge disparity in terms of support provided by all the actors of the legal system; be they be the law, lawyer, judge, mediator, police or their mindset and they all act with husband as a target with a view to milk him.
There has never been even an iota of attempt by the entire legal / police fraternity to understand or engage on the husband’s rights, expectations, and requirements from the legal system in terms.
What we want
In a nutshell We want the Judicial reforms to include the intent for even husbands to get the relevant relief and justice , get out of the court battle and move on with life and restore our faith in the justice system
08.26.09
Press Release: Demanding Judicial Reforms in Marital Cases
About Save Indian Family Foundation:
Save Indian Family Foundation, Bangalore is an NGO dedicated to promote the cause of Gender Equality and Family Harmony. We commandeer the cause of those grief stricken families who are victimized by the misuse of laws like Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, Section 125 CrPC, Child Custody laws to name a few.
Press release: Urgent need for Judicial and Administrative Reforms
Judicial reforms are the call of the day in wake of deteriorating trust and faith of people on the judiciary. The pile of pending cases repeatedly reported in various media reports is acting as a catalyst to the deterioration. People are even taking law in their own hands being exasperated of either of no hope or inaction from the judiciary.
Prime Minister Mr Manmohan Singh has recently highlighted the need for an “an arrear free judicial institution” during joint conference of chief ministers and chief justices of the high courts in New Delhi. He also has stated that “Indian judiciary, despite its strengths, brilliance and dynamism, had to suffer the scourge of having the world’s largest backlog of cases and timelines that generate surprise globally and concern at home.”
At the same conference, Hon Chief Justice of Supreme Court Balakrishnan has said that over 3.11 crore cases were pending in trial courts and high courts across the country. He said that 52,592 cases were pending before the Supreme Court, over 40 lakh cases in the high courts and a whopping 2.71 crore cases in the subordinate courts.
SIFF requires following demands be considered urgently for Judicial Reforms:
- There is urgent need to come down with heavy hands and imposition of fine/costs on frivolous litigations in the name of PIL etc. Frivolous, absurd, and morally correct litigations like Shilpa Shetty kissing Richard Gere are not something the judiciary should waste time on. Many a time such cases are filed in multiple locations by advocates representing some frivolous cause or in the name of PIL. Courts should impose exemplary fine for such frivolous litigation to make an example for advocates and others abusing judicial process.
- No new law/law amendment to be passed by the Parliament Houses unless judicial reforms are not put in place.
- Reportedly even justices of Supreme Court are afraid of frivolous litigation and this is the reason advanced for their opposition to declaration of judges’ assets. It shows lack of faith in judicial process in minds of justices of the Supreme Court themselves. It shows the situation is very serious and steps must be taken to curb frivolous litigation by payment of exemplary fines through statutes and judicial precedents.
- It should be mandatory for judges to disclose their assets. This is in line with requirements for many government posts and also for people willing to contest elections under the Representation of Peoples act 1951.
- Computerization of all court records, case details and case status in order to determine the load on a particular date, before next date is given. Often it happens that on some days there is a lot of load on the courts while on other days it is relatively less burdened. Such random fluctuations of work pressure can be reasonably smoothened with the help of IT and computerization. Other benefits include prior notification to litigants if the judge is on leave on a particular date.
- If 3 consecutive dates pass in a case and no progress happen then the judge/magistrate should be held responsible for that.
- Increased transparency into the functioning and administration of courts via enhanced respect of applications filed under the Right to Information Act.
- Provision of suo motu inquiry on all the judges involved in cases which are more than 5 years old. Failure to co-operate with the inquiry should lead to automatic termination of the service of the judge.
- The third report of the National Police Commission had raised serious concerns on unnecessary arrests by police and said that 60% of arrests by police are unnecessary and are accounting for 43.2% of jail expenditure. In the year 2007, 68 lakh persons were arrested out of which 40 lakh were unnecessary as per the National Police Commission report. Unnecessary arrests also lead to higher amount of expenditure and delay in courts due to bail hearings etc. The CrPC Amendment should be enforced as it has already been notified as an Act, to help in better enforcement of laws without violating human rights and constitutional rights of citizens. It will also ensure that courts are not over-burdened by false cases, thereby speeding up the process of delivering justice in genuine cases.
- There is urgent need for more training and sensitization in police ranks, they being the first point of contact for people in need of justice. It has been seen that a case had reached the Supreme Court only to reach the conclusion that prima facie the case lacked merits. A competent and impartial police and trial courts will avoid the waste of such needless litigation all the way to the Supreme Court.
- Law minister Mr Moily and Chief Justice Balakrishnan have stated that 70 per cent of prisoners in the jails are under-trials. If any under-trial has served more than the punishment stipulated by the law, he or she should be set free.
- The fear of Contempt of Court is lurking like a dead ghost over law-abiding litigants and media who are terrorized to raise their voice against injustices going on against them due to judicial complacency, stereotypic assumptions and overstretched judicial leniency. The concept of Contempt of Court needs to be redefined objectively like a statute. People’s right to freedom of expression need to be balanced against contempt of courts.
- Form study circles with leaders from Save Indian Family movement who are acquitted of 498A cases, some high scholars and a few High Court judges to study husband’s issues.
- Granting of bail under Section 498a should be a norm rather than an exception and the granted bail should not attract stringent conditions rendering it ineffective in spirit if not in letter.
- Respect the dignity of husbands and fathers.
Reforms required under Family law — matrimonial, and child custody cases:
- Alimony for qualified professionals like doctors, lawyers, engineers, MBAs, CAs and the likes should be rejected prima facie and concept of lifetime parasitism be replaced by a better concept to provide interest free sustenance loans returnable in 3-5 years upon obtaining gainful employment. Voluntary incapacitation by capable spouses asking for maintenance should be made a punishable offense to discourage it. Moreover interim maintenance should not be allowed to be used as a dole leading to treatment of husbands as FREE ATM MACHINES.
- Multiple provisions for maintenance viz. Domestic Violence Act, Section 125 CrPC, Section 18 – HMA, Section 24 – HAMA etc. should be simplified and normalized to one single provision as people are entangled in multiple litigations for the same alleged cause of action leading to infringement of Constitutional Rights vide Article 20,21 and 22 of the Indian Constitution.
- If a party in matrimonial disputes gives false allegations relating to spouse or child abuse, no relief should be awarded and instead exemplary fines and costs should be imposed on that party.
- Current practice in child custody cases under GWA 1890 is to grant full custody to custodial parent and trivial visitation rights to non-custodial parent. There is no application of mind as to how this is beneficial to child’s growth and development into a responsible adult. Sec 13 of HMGA 1956 clearly states that Welfare of minor is to be paramount interest in case of guardianship or custody. Accordingly in interest of child’s welfare courts should give joint custody to both parents as a norm unless one parent is proved to be of deviant, irresponsible, or criminal behaviour. This would be in line with natural principle that raising children is shared responsibility of both parents. Anything short of that is a violation both of judicial statutes and basic rights of child to have love and affection of both parents.
- For child custody related cases, visitation to fathers should be granted in either one month of filing or two hearings, whichever is earlier. Also the visitation granted should be of such nature that it builds a sustainable parent child relationship. It has been seen that courts are granting visitation of 1 hour per month to father thereby reducing status of fathers (mostly) to mere acquaintance of child. Numerous studies have shown the harmful effects of children growing without contact with fathers leading to parental alienation syndrome (PAS) and consequent increase in suicides, teenage pregnancies, and crime rate as adults etc.
- Any kind of doctoring or tutoring a child’s mind against other parent should be treated on par with child abuse and against child’s growth and development. Courts should grant full custody to the other parent in such cases to deter a parent from using children as tools to solve their own personal grievances.
Reforms required in family courts:
Some of the problems and issues which prompted the need of Judicial Reforms in family court cases and suggestions are as follows:
- The Youth and vigour of Young Women and Men are lost by the time the Family Court renders it decision – be it Just or unjust. Marital cases filed more than two years back, and still in the pending stage should be disposed off in the next six months as a compensation for the time litigants have already lost due to judicial delays in cases. This will lead to drastic unloading of the unwarranted pressure on the courts to meet targets.
- Statutory mandate of law for disposal of cases by 6 months and day to day hearing is not at all followed by the Family Courts.
- The Rules framed by the High Court to dispose of cases at least within one year is flouted by granting long, luxurious and indefinite adjournments by Family Courts.
- Even when the High Court orders specific time limits for disposal of particular cases, the Family Courts do not respect such orders.
- No rules at the discretion of the Family Court as provided in the Family Court Act are also framed.
- While the Act requires recording of the gist of evidence only, the Courts elaborately records every word uttered by the witnesses religiously thus wasting the precious judicial time.
- In the name of appointing of Amicus Curie’s the Family Courts are taken over by advocates, though the Family Courts Act vide. Section 9 and 10 has specifically banned appearance by Advocates.
- Practicing lawyers of family Court are appointed as counsellors and mediators thereby defeating the purpose of counselling and mediation.
Thanks and Regards
Public Relations Officer
Save Indian Family Foundation, Bangalore
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Bangalore
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08.24.09
Strong objection to CrPC Amendments Enforcement Delay
To
Justice A R Lakshamanan
Chairman, LAW COMMISSION OF INDIA
2nd Floor. The Indian Law Institute Building(Opp. to Supreme Court)
Bhagwandas Road
New Delhi – 110 001
Sub: Strong Objection to interference of the Law Commission of India in Public Welfare.
Respected Sir,
Save Indian Family Foundation, an NGO dedicated to promote the cause of Men’s Rights, Family Harmony and Gender Equality under the aegis of the Save Indian Family Movement would like to express its strong displeasure at the apathy meted out by the Govt. of India with its lackadaisical attitude towards Public Welfare.
Brief Background:
Owing to rampant misuse of “Powers of Arrest” by the police as observed by the Honorable Supreme Court of India, the 3rd Report of the National Police Commission and various other committees, the 2 houses of the Parliament passed an amendment of the existing Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) rationalizing the powers of arrest by police and drawing a clear demarcation between the “Power to Arrest” and the “Need to Arrest” by way of the CrPC Amendment Bill, 2008.
Following the green signal from the Parliamentary Houses, Her Excellency, The Honorable President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, also gave her assent to the Amendments. However, after that a lot of misleading reports were coming in the media from various Government Agencies that the gazette notification of the same is not going to happen.
A comprehensive and detailed operation through the Right to Information Act, 2005 revealed that, contrary to misleading media reports by the Government of India, the CrPC Amendment Bill, 2008 had already been notified in the Gazette of India as Act No. 5 of 2009. Details of the RTI are available here.
However, the bottleneck was created around its enforcement and now a recent media report has revealed that the Union Home Ministry, instead of enforcing the already notified act, has sent the matter to the Law Commission of India who will be consulting lawyers, as to whether the implementations in the amendment be brought to effect or not.
Complaint:
This is nothing less than sheer mockery of democracy. The elected representatives of the people of this democratic country have already passed a law (which was open to public debate for 2 years), and a section of the society which has vested economic and financial interests in the law – aka the lawyers – are being allowed to interfere in the process and hijack it as well.
It’s a shame that the Government of India, represented by the Union Home Ministry and the Law Commission have become mute spectators to the hijacking of issues of larger public interest. It is a well known fact that rationalization of powers of arrest by the police will be a scourge on the illegitimate income of LOBBY LAWYERS.
However, it remains to be decided by the Government as to whether it wants to bow down before egg-pelting lawyers (as validated by the Shree Krishna Commission Report) or wants to take larger public interest into consideration.
Demand:
The Law Commission of India should stop interfering in the CrPC Amendment Act Enforcement in larger public interest. On the contrary it should be giving recommendations to the Government to enforce the CrPC Amendment Act in its current form in both letter and spirit. As per the third report of the National Police Commission, unnecessary and unjustified arrests by police account for 60% of the arrests and 43.2% of jail expenditure.
In the year 2007 itself, 68 lakh people were arrested, which means 40 lakh innocent people have been arrested just because there is no mechanism to control the unaccountable loose cannon called the Indian Police Force. Other than the infringement of Fundamental Right to Life and Liberty granted to these citizens by the Constitution of India vide Article 21, these unnecessary and unjustified arrests are also a very big burden on the public exchequer – money that can be used for other developments.
Hence the demand to return back the CrPC Amendment Act (as is) to the Union Home Ministry is reiterated here.
Date: 25 August 2009 Thanks and Regards
Place: Bangalore Public Relations Officer
Save Indian Family Foundation, Bangalore
Copy To:
- Prime Minister’s Office
- President’s Office
- Ministry of Law and Justice
- Ministry of Home Affairs
- Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
- Supreme Court of India.
08.20.09
PARTICIPATION – The Key to success of men’s rights movement
Today, though we have close to 3K members, very few members are participating in writing emails within the group and most of them read the mails written by the enthusiastic PARTICIPANTS whose numbers would be around 100-150.
It is pertinent to realize that when affected members cannot participate in writing inside a closed group, how can awareness of men’s rights be created?
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Often new members might feel constrained as to how can they contribute. Here’s the key to that – PARTICIPATION.
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1. Members can participate in creating awareness of men’s issues, men’s rights by writing blogs, putting comments on articles in news websites, writing regular emails to authorities, etc.
2. Members can participate in becoming a PAIN IN THE ASS (PITAji) to the Government by writing RTIs on various subjects and holding the neck of the Government.
3. Members can participate in enriching legal knowledge by doing self-study, forming peer and buddy groups and discussing the same in their local chapters.
4. Members can participate in listening to stories of other people and share pain and at the same time get empowered.
5. Members can participate in joining the protest against oppressive laws by sending faxes to the law ministry, writing letters to various Government authorities, attending Dharnas, roadshows etc.
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And so and so forth. Above is only a trailer of how members can participate. I am sure members can come up with more innovative ideas of PARTICIPATION.
Hence we see that PARTICIPATION is the key. The more members will PARTICIPATE, the stronger men’s rights movement will grow which in turn will lead to lesser and lesser abuse of men and ultimately it is the PARTICIPANTS who are going to benefit out of the PARTICIPATION.
Choice however, lies with the members, whether they want to be PARTICIPANTS or SPECTATORS.
08.18.09
Press Release: Shimla Declaration of the National Conference of the Save Indian Family Movement
Sub: Shimla Declaration of the National Conference of the Save Indian Family Movement.
Introduction:
Save Indian Family (SIF) movement is a non-funded, self-supported movement and has been formed with a multi-dimensional strategy to form at least 100 NGOs all over India working in the area of Men Welfare. On the 15th of August 2009, 100 leaders from at least 25 NGOs representing 40,000 members participated in a 2 day National Conference in Shimla with a resolution of not to celebrate the Independence Day on August 15 this year.
Brief Background:
Leaders of the SIF movement feel that India is not an independent and a democratic country because men in general and married men in particular are being discriminated against to the point that their constitutional rights are being infringed and challenged especially those granted under Articles 14,15,20 and 21 of the Indian Constitution – the mother of all Indian laws.
- Article 21 of the Constitution provides for Right to Liberty, however today one unverified complaint of mental and/or physical harassment from the wife under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code lands a man and his old parents, pregnant sister and minor children behind bars and his Right to Liberty is challenged as neither is any investigation being done to verify the tenacity of the complaint nor evidence is collected to corroborate the allegations.
- Article 20 of the Constitution says that no person shall be tried twice for the same offence, however, in marital matters the man and his family face multiple litigations/prosecutions/trials for the same alleged cause of action under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, Domestic Violence Act, Section 125 CrPC (maintenance), Section 24 of the Hindu marriage Act, Divorce case, child custody case etc. These multiple and parallel litigations for same alleged offence clearly and blatantly violates Article 20 of the Indian Constitution.
- Article 15 of the Constitution says that for the weaker sections of the society including women and children, the Govt. shall provide for Special Provisions to work for their welfare. Nowhere does it give the Govt. the liberty to formulate special, redundant and gender biased laws against the natural principles of Cardinal Justice. However, the laws mentioned above have been formulated and this practice is in violation of the Article 15 of the Constitution of India.
- Article 14 of the Constitution provides for Right to Equality before law. However, in Domestic Violence Act, firstly men are not provided protection against domestic abuse from their wives and in-laws and secondly the complainant woman’s sole testimony is considered as evidence of violation of protection order enough to convict the man. Both these practices do not place men and women at equal footing before the law as men face severe discrimination and their Constitutional right under Article 14 is challenged.
Under such a scenario, the men’s rights NGOs under the aegis of the SIF movement have lost the significance of celebrating Independence Day as they feel India is not a democratic country but a fascist country where arbitrary arresting a particular section of the society is considered as social service. SIF Leaders feel celebrating Independence in a country, where the Constitutional Rights of men are not respected, is like insulting freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Chandrashekhar Azad, etc.
Major Concerns:
- 123,000 innocent women (mothers, sisters and other female relatives of men) have been arrested in the four years period (2004 – 2007) whereas even the so called “Barbaric British Govt.” arrested only 40,000 women in 40 years.
- Every year on an average 55200 married men are committing suicides with the number shooting to 57593 for 2007 vis-à-vis 30000 married women as per National Crime Records Bureau. Whose life is in more danger? Is the pain of a mother/sister less when she loses a son/brother?
- 98% of dowry harassment cases filed against men have been found to be false and it is the wife’s family who has been extorting money from the man by treating them as FREE ATM MACHINE by threatening them with false allegations and dragging them into frivolous and malicious prosecution.
- In the five years span (2001 – 2006) an estimated 13,00,000 men have lost their jobs – a vast majority of them due to frivolous and arbitrary arrests – whereas 14,00,000 women have gained employment. Who needs empowerment, men or women?
- Men pay 82% of the taxes and more tax than women at the same salary level.
Action Points:
- SIF declares Section 498A of the IPC and Domestic Violence Act as Unconstitutional and demands a National Level Committee be setup which would include SIF Leaders as well to investigate into the constitutionality of these laws.
- Institute National Commission for men to study men’s issues and give recommendations to the Govt.
- Form Men’s Welfare Ministry to address men’s issues.
- Replace the word “Husband” and “Wife” with “Spouse” and “Man” and “Woman” with “Person”.
We conclude the Shimla Conference with this.
Date: 16th August 2009 Thanks and Regards
Place: Shimla Public Relations Officer
Save Indian Family Foundation
08.11.09
Are the courts hearing Bhavya and his friends
Bhavya Foundation, a website that speaks about the agony of a small child torn apart between his parents’ marital tussle and the judicial stupidity, wherein Bhavya elucidates the unfortunate childhood of his and other unfortunate children in his age group who are forced to live a fatherless life.
However, the insensitive and shameless Government of India continues to pamper legal terrorists who misuse Section 498A, Domestic Violence Act and other women protection laws unleashing Legal Terrorism on the Indian Family System and the preparation of a Fatherless Society for children like Bhavya.
Bhavya Foundation was launched on 9th August 2009 in Rae-Bareli (U.P.)
Below is the link to the media coverage of the same
08.04.09
Press Release Announcing National Conference of SIF
PRESS RELEASE
Sub: Press Release announcing the National Conference of Save Indian Family movement.
Save Indian Family Foundation – a non-funded NGOs fighting for Men’s Rights and Family Harmony under the aegis of the Save Indian Family movement – is going to take part in the National Meet being convened this 15th-16th August 2009 in Shimla. Around 100 leaders of around 14 different NGOs fighting for awareness of men’s rights will be taking part in the Conference to discuss strategies to take the movement of men’s rights to further levels.
This Conference is second in the series of National Meets being conducted by the NGOs under the aegis of the Save Indian Family movement. Previous Conference was held in Goa last year September 2008. This year the 15th of August – The Independence Day of India has been chosen as the National Meet Day for this year because we have no enthusiasm left to celebrate August 15th as Independence Day, as it will be an insult to all the heroes who sacrificed their lives for this country.
Some facts about this so called Democratic Country:-
- Today, there is massive amount of police brutalities and denial of justice in India. People are killed in custody or are driven to death by police. People including women are insulted, abused, threatened and extorted in police stations before being sent to jail without evidence or trial.
- This is state sponsored terrorism happening right here in Indian urban metros like Bangalore or Delhi.
- There is hooliganism in high court complexes and no actions are taken on criminals and hooligans.
- In India, even educated people cannot expect to get justice from courts. So, one can imagine what is happening with uneducated and poor people.
- Home Minister P.Chidambaram does not want to do police reforms in spite of such a sorry state of affairs. India is not a free and not a democratic country for its people.
- Today, 40 lakh arrests every year in India by police are either unnecessary or unjustified. A criminal is born the day an innocent is arrested. Does the Dr. Manmohan Singh led Indian Government or Shri P.Chidambaram led Ministry of Home Affairs have any accountability? They both are responsible for insulting, abusing and arresting of more than 123,000 women under section 498A of the IPC (the most draconian and misused section of the IPC) in last 4 years.
On one hand Indian Government depends on young people for its high powered economy and yet treats them as sacrificial lambs in police stations and courts.
The judges in India are reluctant to declare their assets to public, where as every bureaucrat and ministers are supposed to do so. Is this democracy? Now, Govt. wants to hide the asset details of the judges from the common people, in a democracy. Though the bill has been opposed in the Parliament, yet it exposes the luxurious autonomy the judiciary is enjoying, being showered upon and protected although its corruption has been rampant.
Estimated corruption in the judiciary is around 2600 crores annually which is a saddening fact because with such rampant corruption it is evident that the fear of punishment has ceased to exist for those who commit crime. Judicial bias, complacency, inefficiency and corruption are directly responsible for skyrocketing crime graph in the society. And even then this so called Democratic Government is hell-bent on shielding the odds of the judiciary.
Democracy is: Government of the people, by the people and for the people. Is the current Government in India truly democratic? Is India a free country, where there is so much police brutality? No.
Indian is not a free and not a democratic country. Just elections every 5 years, do not make a country democratic. If today India is not a free and not a democratic country then what does August 15 celebrations mean?
These celebrations are an insult to all the people, who gave their life for freedom.
SIFF members will be meeting at Shimla on 15th and 16th August to plan for intensifying agitation against hypocrisy, police brutalities, injustice and family breaking by vested interests in India.
SIFF does not want to insult heroes like Subhash Bose, Moulana Azad, Sardar Patel or Bhagat Singh by celebrating August 15th.
This 15th August 2009 begins a second freedom struggle – freedom from servants who have become masters.
