10-21-2008, 12:07 AM
<b>'Complaints about NRIs deserting their wives skyrocketing'</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Don't marry Indians in America, including Canada [Images],' Vayalar Ravi</b>, India's minister for Overseas Indian Affairs often tells people back home.
Revealing this to the media at the Indian consulate in New York, Ravi explained: "Complaints about non-resident Indians deserting their wives are skyrocketing. In Punjab alone at least 20,000 cases are pending against NRI husbands."
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Ravi said several men in the US had also complained to him about women misusing Article 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which gives the police power to arrest the husband and his family immediately after a woman complains of harassment.
<b>"There may be a few instances of the Article being misused," Ravi said, pointing out that its good points outweighed the bad ones. So there was little likelihood of the law being repealed</b>, he said.
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What a moron is this minister? Now Government will tell who people can marry?
I thought law is meant to protect everyone, not to protect one victim and punish other victim.
It means this law is seriously flawed which failed to protect victims and infact punish innocent victims.
Revealing this to the media at the Indian consulate in New York, Ravi explained: "Complaints about non-resident Indians deserting their wives are skyrocketing. In Punjab alone at least 20,000 cases are pending against NRI husbands."
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Ravi said several men in the US had also complained to him about women misusing Article 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which gives the police power to arrest the husband and his family immediately after a woman complains of harassment.
<b>"There may be a few instances of the Article being misused," Ravi said, pointing out that its good points outweighed the bad ones. So there was little likelihood of the law being repealed</b>, he said.
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What a moron is this minister? Now Government will tell who people can marry?
I thought law is meant to protect everyone, not to protect one victim and punish other victim.
It means this law is seriously flawed which failed to protect victims and infact punish innocent victims.