Originally posted by: maha2us
Krani, For some laws to be correct certain things have to happen. The implementation of the laws has to be good. The genuine victims must get relief and the true culprits have to be punished. No doubt in India many DILs are harassed by their parent-in-laws and also many husbands abuse their wives. But are those genuine victims approaching the law? What is the harsh truth of these ;laws which the wives slap against her husband and his family is, it is found that 98% of these laws are false and the Supreme court has accepted this. The only thing which remains is all these false 98% victims, go through endless torture as they have to fight cases in faraway towns. The wives slap cases against not only the husband's disabled parents but also against very young children in husband's joint family. All these people have to travel to faraway towns for fighting the cases and there are times all these are sent to prison also for a few days as the laws believe that the husband's family members are guilty until they are proved innocent. (That is the reality of 498a cases.) If the laws have to be effective those who misuse the laws also have to be punished heavily. Thus we could see because of these laws also the elders are not taken care of. What is the purpose of the laws, if it is found that 98% of the cases by that law are false? Are the laws there just to feed the lawyers who also cheat a lot?
You said so yourself that the people who are abused rarely approach the law, and that is the reality as often the societal pressures as well as the abuse of the family force them to keep quiet.
The percentages that are calculated are calculated from the cases that are filed - more often than not, as you have pointed out, the cases are false. The percentages are not accurate to point out that hte law is at fault when only the wrong people are filing cases. If every woman who was abused filed a case, along with the people who were wrongfully abusing the law - and then the percentages were calculated, then that would be more accurate.
However having said that, the Government should still not get rid of the law to protect women because some are able to abuse it - in that way we would be getting rid of every law that protect people. Rather the Government needs to find more effective tools to make sure such things do not happen - or if they do, the right person is punished.
Having said that, the corruption in our country is so high that if a DIL files a genuine case, and the in-laws give money etc to make her seem as a person filing a wrongful case, then she is going to be punished unnecessarily. Both, the elderly and the younger women, suffer from such kinds of abuse of the law.
Also, I would like to know where you got the statistics from?
The fact that they have to go to faraway places to fight their cases shows another fault in the Government for not making their judiciary system reliable and efficient for people to find justice. However, I would once again stress that I do not believe the law to protect the DILs should be scrapped - rather India should buckle up and start taking care of its citizens rather than caring about the politicians filling their own pockets.
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