On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Dr. John Marshall Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dowry Act is a good tool for 90% of the women, but a bad one for the > other 10% (or maybe more) who misuse it. > I personally know two (real nice) guys who are on the run cos' their newly > wed wives have put false cases on them. How do you solve such cases ?
I too know a few nice men who toe the line out of fear. I also know a larger number of women (both in and outside India) who consider their marriage is important enough to suffer (all kinds of) abuse silently, than break the marriage. The moot question was - Is there is a disparity in the number of cases filed under the dowry act as opposed to women filing cases of sexual assault. Its no secret that many assaults on women go unreported and unpunished because of the social shame** that follows. If a married women finds it easier to get police action under the dowry act than if she were to file a case of domestic violence/sexual assault against the husband, isnt it a lacunae in the law? How can we create a social system that is more sensitized to women? -- . * Take the well-publicised assault at the mangalore pub case where none of the victims came forward to lodge a complaint out of fear.
