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Hi,
today morning there was a program on Awaz (hafte ki audit) in which there
was dicussion on increasing divorcee cases. Although the dicussion was not
directly related to sec. 498 a but one female participant who is high court
lawyer said that Sec. 498A is widely misused by todays daughter-in-laws
in the case her husband dont dance to their […]

Look at this ORIGINAL news report - the ONE FROM TIMES LONDON, which has
been opposed by the “…Call Center Association of India ..”
If you read this times report, it clearly states the following :
1. Majority of the ones having affairs were MARRIED !! - meaning
*potential 498A threats when found out sooner or later* !!
2. It […]

I don’t even know where to begin. I am a 50-yr old man who is
married to the same woman for the past 24 years. I felt that maybe
you would be the one to turn to for advice or help. It is apparent
to me that I have been the victim of spousal abuse for the past […]

In urban India, majority families acquired best knowledge of IPC
Section 498A, commonly called dowry-law in India, which is
introduced to alleviate DOWRY from our society.
My intention of writing this article is to help both sides of the
coin -bride and bridegroom, that giving and taking dowry is illegal
as per our laws and there is a possibility that […]

I believe lot of these women who end up filing 498a’s are inherently very insecure and weak. They appear to have craved for attention and control all their life. They are not willing to commit to a relationship and bear the ups and downs of marrried life.
Also, something strangely familiar with most of these women […]

 
There is one aspect even the lawyers or parents on either side don’t catch on much. General depression arising out insecurity (due to lack of knowledge or insight into the husband’s world, especially if NRI) and out of bad treatment by parents (parents don’t start using their daughters for money out of the blue… there […]

   Yesterday evening (March 11th’06) I was watching TV. I watched plenty of news on different
news channels which are directly of indirectly related to our cause.
   1. In Delhi (Alipur police station) a husband is burnt alive by his in laws.
Police IS NOT EVEN IN A MOOD THE REGISTER FIR. TILL THEN, NO ONE EVEN RECORDED
HIS STATEMENTS. […]

Law, a replica of human ethics and guidelines to code of conduct, has
been acting as a protector of conscience. Conscience guides us
towards salvation and freedom from wrongdoing. It is understandable
that it’s a human nature to despise rules especially in the recent
times where people have shed all the traditional inhibitions to seek
physical and sensual pleasures at […]

No eyewitnesses or evidence is required for filing a case under Section 498A of
the IPC, and there is no punishment for filing a false case just to abuse
others. The outcome in such cases is: harassment of entire families by the legal
system at the behest of some abusive wives/daughter-in-laws and at times jail
for no rhyme or […]

Subject : Criminal
Title :      Dowry Laws: Loopholes & Possibilities Of Misuse
Author : Mr. Arvind Lakhawat
Dowry laws: Loopholes & Possibilities of misuse…
  There is hardly any other malady of greater magnitude, which the
society is facing today than the curse of dowry demand and dowry
death. It is commonly talked of in the society that the newly
married wife is […]