11-11-2006, 10:52 PM
In the name of shielding women and other nonsense, they are screwing up marriages and making laws blatantly biased against Men:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->From today, law to shield women
[ 26 Oct, 2006 0223hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK
NEW DELHI: A legislation that gives women, married or in live-in relationships, far reaching legal protection against abuse or "threat of abuse" comes into effect from Thursday.
The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, cleared by the President on September 13 last year, will finally be enforced.
The Act had attracted some criticism for being open to "manipulationâ as it provides for wide-ranging powers to women.
But the law is primarily meant to provide protection to the wife or female live-in partner from violence at the hands of the husband or male partner or his relatives.
The ambit of the legislation has been widened to include persons who have "shared household and are related by consanguinity, marriage or a relationship in the nature of marriage, or adoption in addition to relationship with family members... Even those women who are sisters, widows, mothers, single women or living with the abuser are entitled to get legal protection".
Domestic violence under the Act includes actual abuse or the threat of abuse whether physical, sexual, verbal, emotional or economic, said a statement from the ministry of women and child development (WCD), which issued a notification on Wednesday to bring the act into force.
This also includes harassment by way of unlawful dowry demands to the woman or her relatives. WCD minister Renuka Chowdhury said, "The act will go a long way to provide relief to women from domestic violence and to get their due."
The ministry has simultaneously issued another notification laying down the rules framed for implementation of the act which will provide for, among other things, appointment of protection officers, service providers and counsellors.
Besides physical violence of beating, slapping, hitting, kicking and pushing, the act also covers sexual violence like forced intercourse, forcing a wife or mate to look at pornography or any other obscene pictures or material and child sexual abuse.
It also includes verbal and emotional violence such as name-calling and insults. Preventing one's wife from taking up a job or forcing her to leave a job are also under the purview of the act.
One of the most important features of the act is the woman's right to secure housing, the statement said, adding that it provides a right to reside in the matrimonial and shared household, whether or not she has any title in the household.
The act provides for breach of protection order or interim protection order by the respondent as a cognisable and non-bailable offence punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to Rs 20,000 or both.
The other relief envisaged is that of the power of the court to pass protection orders that prevent the abuser from aiding or committing an act of domestic violence or any other specified act, entering a workplace or any other place frequented by the abused, attempting to communicate with the abused and isolating any assets used by both the parties.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/article...378,curpg-2.cms<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I read some interview of this edited Renuka and there she categorises all Indian marriages and Indian husbands as involved in wife beating.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->From today, law to shield women
[ 26 Oct, 2006 0223hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK
NEW DELHI: A legislation that gives women, married or in live-in relationships, far reaching legal protection against abuse or "threat of abuse" comes into effect from Thursday.
The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, cleared by the President on September 13 last year, will finally be enforced.
The Act had attracted some criticism for being open to "manipulationâ as it provides for wide-ranging powers to women.
But the law is primarily meant to provide protection to the wife or female live-in partner from violence at the hands of the husband or male partner or his relatives.
The ambit of the legislation has been widened to include persons who have "shared household and are related by consanguinity, marriage or a relationship in the nature of marriage, or adoption in addition to relationship with family members... Even those women who are sisters, widows, mothers, single women or living with the abuser are entitled to get legal protection".
Domestic violence under the Act includes actual abuse or the threat of abuse whether physical, sexual, verbal, emotional or economic, said a statement from the ministry of women and child development (WCD), which issued a notification on Wednesday to bring the act into force.
This also includes harassment by way of unlawful dowry demands to the woman or her relatives. WCD minister Renuka Chowdhury said, "The act will go a long way to provide relief to women from domestic violence and to get their due."
The ministry has simultaneously issued another notification laying down the rules framed for implementation of the act which will provide for, among other things, appointment of protection officers, service providers and counsellors.
Besides physical violence of beating, slapping, hitting, kicking and pushing, the act also covers sexual violence like forced intercourse, forcing a wife or mate to look at pornography or any other obscene pictures or material and child sexual abuse.
It also includes verbal and emotional violence such as name-calling and insults. Preventing one's wife from taking up a job or forcing her to leave a job are also under the purview of the act.
One of the most important features of the act is the woman's right to secure housing, the statement said, adding that it provides a right to reside in the matrimonial and shared household, whether or not she has any title in the household.
The act provides for breach of protection order or interim protection order by the respondent as a cognisable and non-bailable offence punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to Rs 20,000 or both.
The other relief envisaged is that of the power of the court to pass protection orders that prevent the abuser from aiding or committing an act of domestic violence or any other specified act, entering a workplace or any other place frequented by the abused, attempting to communicate with the abused and isolating any assets used by both the parties.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/article...378,curpg-2.cms<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I read some interview of this edited Renuka and there she categorises all Indian marriages and Indian husbands as involved in wife beating.