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Is 498A a family killer law?
Is 498A a legal terrorism law?
Is 498A used mainly for extrotion of money?

Feb. 28, 2007: More than 20 ,000 Indian husabnds sucides last years ( SOWRY DEATH ) due to thier wives threat and harrasement against 7000 wives sucides and all the Wives sucided irrespective the same for any reason.

The dishonest people had taken the word as "Dowry death " and hiding to save thier face and try to get away from thier own Crime of Blackmailling and Extrotion of Money my misusing the 498A

 

  • Dear NRI's beware of Indian dowry laws. I was a recent victim of 498a, just filed against me for blackmailing purposes. I then had a stay from high court for stay of proceedings. But my in-laws bribed police and the female court judge to issue non bailable warrants which constitutes a contempt of court against high court order. Its a shame on our legal and police system. Lets fight this kind of extortion and fight to examine 498a section properly. Lets preserve human rights.--------Chandra S Chandra, cschandra69@yahoo.co.uk , UK
  • Only shelter Left for a medile class family's(bride) 498A: our Society definetly need bit for liberal for women , for that we need to give the women all rights to leave in a safe and grooming place .unfortunately our society still needs alot of improvements in this sector .We have really a powerful law to secure the women rights by giving IPC Section 498A , but most of the female not even dare to get into court to get there rights.They keep facing the mental trauma given by the grooms family either in physical or mental apathy.Even if somehow the bride escapes from the guys house they keep haunting the girls parents for money n kinds.I do agree we have some false cases as well however if we thinking to remove this law we will definetly land-up in multiple time increase of true dowry cases which will not be enacted and be given justice to girls family .The girls will as usual die silently without even complaining and the whole family (girls family) will suffer forever..... .Atul Kumar, bitsatul@gmail.com, India
  • Well spoken. It is called convenience which suits them. When time and need arises to ask for help from NRIs all the politicians and people ask for help but when the time comes to shift blame and find scapegoats the same finger pointing also points towards NRIs who are maligned and biased against and treated as second class citizens who are just money minting machine. .......Prasad Gupta <pg1973gp@gmail.com
  • Amazing!
    Every times an NRI or his child achieves something in the country that he/she lives in, the Indian newspapers take great pride in claiming that an Indian achieved something great, and they have no qualms about expecting the NRI to help everybody in India.
    The NRIs left India in order to better their prospects in life because they had no political/legal/criminal connections in India. However, conveniently ignoring the fact that the NRIs have struggled hard in the country that they live in to achieve what they had achieved, the newspapers along with the politicians are quick to malign the NRIs at every step in an attempt to shift the blame for their own misdeeds and to keep the NRIs under their thumb. I guess the NRIs are only good for being used and abused. ....7322002@yahoo.com

  • Whoever made these suggestions is totally not aware of realty of NRI marriages.Greedy girls and their parents go all out to grab an NRI groom and later threaten them with 498a blackmail................. Praveen walia 1
  • Gope Lalwani 10/13/2005 There should be punishment for the Indian Girl who marry outside India with foreign national and comes back in India and files false complaint under section 498A giving fraudulent statements. They get victims arrested at Airports and demand big amounts as extortion in collusion with police Government must cancell/withdraw their passports issued in the name of President for bad charactor . The misuse of Indian laws is nothing but rape of Judiciary and legal system.
  • sb repr 10/30/2005 Divorce is a basic human right. If a NRI is giving maintenance, then he shold be granted immediate Divorce. The feminist influence wifes of today are torturing husbands. The MOIA should make this law immediately. There should be no question of losing his or her property simply because the spouce says so. The suggestion to just take the husbands property and not that of the wife is ridiculas and one sided. Presently if a husband refuces to give divorce, Police in Crime against cell and NCW etc openly threaten to make a false Dowry , mental cruality case and send the husband to jail. If wife refuces to give divorce, then the same is not done. In absence of any Law even if the CAW or even NCW come across cases in which clearly the wife is at fault, they simply can not do anything. The equality in law for man should be faught and feninazi's opposed.
    sb repr 10/30/2005 If there is matrimonial discord, why should the husband lose his overseas citizenship. This suggestion is simple criminal, and can be made only by feminists brainwashed by feninazi's. Please help NRI's from false cases by crueal wifes and one sided laws.
    sb repr 10/30/2005 I do not agree with the suggestion that matrimonial discord should be made a criminal offence. When most wifes are threatening the husbands to implicate them in false physical , mental cruality cases. The husband has to save his life. So just saying the if a husband abandooms the wife , i.e. is too afraid to live with her. He should be treated as a criminal. He citizenship should be cancelled, no way. He should loose his property, while wife can keep her property, no way. Lets get justice to husbands, get them divorce and freeom from false cases. Save them from physical beatings by wife and her relatives.
  • sb repr 10/31/2005 Distant NRI relatives of the husband are arrested, their passport taken under false dowry law complaints. This is a good way to earn fast money. You should please step in and stop this extortion and cruality revenge on innocent NRI relatives of the husband. For this please make the Dowry law for NRI relatives of the husbands as bailable. It is sad to see so many NRI relatives of husbands loosing the jobs as they can not get the passport back, so can not go abroad to work. Their wife and childs life is also greatly destroyed , just due to wrong laws that punish innocents by non bailable laws.
  • sb repr 10/31/2005 On thinking some more, got a few more points. Sorry for writing more then once on this important topic. 1. There are far far more cases of girls giving misinformation to get married to NRI. NCW has distorted the facts and mentioned just about a small number of cases, and not about the majority of cases in which NRI's are made a fool. Thus NCW has delebrately distorted the facts to get wrong laws passed, which will be harmful the society. Girls hide serious illness. Hide previous matrimonial problems with the family girls due to feminist views. Even hide if she is a divorcee or still married to someone. feminist influenced mothers whose marriage had been a constant fighting with husbands, and harmful to everyone,telling daughters that no girl can marry if she tells the truth of her feminist views. So keep quit agree to everything before marriage, make them a fool by lies. Once marriage is done we will threaten them with false cases they will have to agree to all our wims. 2. A few cases in which girl are allegedly cheated , we do not know if this is true as it may be that the husband has realized it is impossible to live with such a wife and so left her . Otherwise why would a man not like to live a happy family life, why would he give maintenance throughout his life, can not get divorce and so can not start a family and have kids. The CAW cells in police and press distorts this to say he is doing this for some fun. It is impossible to believe them. The NCW wants that punishing the husband by destroying his life by not giving him children, taking money for maintenance, torturing him and anyone from his family by false non bailable mental cruality, torture for asking money from girls relatives, in most cases the girls family is being paid by the NRI, but that deos not make much difference, the law is one sided, NRI gave Rs 1000 by if girl family gave 100 it is torture of girl to ask for dowry. Anyways the law does not axist to stop SOWRY, son inlaw own wealth released to you, torture of the husbands . They are not satisfied with these laws. NCW want that to torture him and his mother, father, sisters married or unmarried, brother or any other relative as per the wims of the wife’s parents and police. NCW wants that irrespective of the facts , who is at fault, the husband should be punished more and his citizenship should also be taken from him. If this effects his job and capability to earn, who cares.If wife or some of her relatives, or some feminist NGO want to take revenge, theyshould be allowed to take the revenge by all sort of false cases. Even if all the fault is of the wife and her relatives. This is clearly unethical and harmful to everyone. So the citizenship of a separated husband who is already facing so much trouble should be taken back as per NCW is wrong, and will almost always result in torture of innocent NRI’s by legal means. Most countries realize that it is inhuman to destroy the life of a person by not giving divorce, so divorce can be get in these countries in reasonable conditions. The NRI’s should be warned that it is nearly impossible to get divore for a man in India, in reasonable years. If marriage do not work and mutual divorce by giving lots of money to the girl side do not work out then false dowry case has to be faced by the full family, non bailable . The NCW is talking about misinformation at the time of marriage by boys, though it happens that more girls tell false about her marital status , or if she is a divorcee, or if she has major illness . and cleaverly mixing the demand to punish husbands who has not given false information at the time of marriage. This is unethical and shameful for a govt. funded national level organization. Thus trying to make laws for husbands who were infact misinformed .
  • Rajesh Bhagat 11/2/2005 Having married an India, and find myself with the jungle laws with respect to marriage in india. I certainly would not marry an Indian. They just not worth the trouble.
  • Prudvi Raj 11/19/2005 Are we saying "all Indian Men/NRIs are bad" and "all Indian women are good". These laws are thought provoking, This is heights of feminism. Is there any other country in this earth hosting such a gender biased and un-fair law ? There are 100s of incidents, A girl marries an NRI, comes to US, after landing says bye bye to husband and go to her boy friend. How do you make a law for this ? This is not one incident, there are several such incidents. How do you do justice to the boy ? How do you punish such girls ? Are we blind enough to keep on making biased laws ? Did you look into US Govt. warning to NRIs marrying Indian girls ? There are 1000s of victimised NRIs by 498a to extract money.There are 1000s of false 498a on cases on innocent husbands, parents and relatives arrested in India by a single line complaint by wife. The basic institute of marriage should run on mutual trust, if you make laws like this, it will become NRI-498a. May be it is better to enforce "No Marriages to NRIs at all", so that there is no issues at all for you. Just think about these laws when falling into an evil minded women ? Are we not giving too much of power to them ? How can you or your department ensures it will not fall into evil women. .....Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs,INDIA

Sunday, August 7, 2005 at 02:48:05

Name_First: Mohiuddin, LAST: Raza, City: Gaya, India , EMAIL: mohiuddinraza@hotmail.com

I am facing a similar case. My wife is schizophrenic as well and I have divorced her. However, my former in laws have filed a dowry and torture case. What astonishes me is that the law could be such that without any proof just on allegations how could a law put all relatives under harassment.I would like to invite all suggestions how to get rid of this situation. What is the time frame?



Sunday, August 7, 2005 at 08:18:06 --- Name_First: ritika, LAST: goswami, City: india

We(all our family members including my maternal uncles who dont even live with us)all are victim of this dragon ! your judgement has shown us a ray of hope that atleast there is some thing going on in this context.This law need a drastic justifiable change in which a women lodging a false complaint should be hanged till death as only one word of her's can ruin n no of life! hoping our honourable judicial system can make it more effective to make punishable for guilty and not innocent people


In India-Force@yahoogroups.com, "gopelalwani" <gopelalwani@y...>
I think the negative mind has gone a bit too far.Who is the uncle in law of Manish in home ministry?is he Home minister?There are so many
babus working in government at different posts.They cant drive police and other departments and lawyesr ,like made out.Manish being a lawyer knows law very well.Supreme court in various jugements has laid down interpretation of 498A and put some restraints....Read More



Clear case of corruption .
MISUSE AND ABUSE OF MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS.
Abuse and misuse of Indian matrimonial laws.Such cases must be investigated by C.B.I.like false
case against Presinent of India. - --- In misusedowryact@yahoogroups.com, "mrinaljha" <mrinaljha@y...>

"TWO year old Boy may face behind bar: FLASE DOWRY CASE(498 A) ......Read More 15

 


July 26, 2005 at 00:26:38-----Name_First: swarup, LAST: sarkar, City: Delhi , India, EMAIL: swa_rup@yahoo.co.uk

"Is there any Laxman to support Sita or only Ravan are there to support Surpanakhas??"

Few days back , I receive a coment in my blog "498A: Made for Sita but Surpanakhas are Encashing!!!! "Is there any Laxman to Support Sita or only Ravan are there to support Surpanakhas??".....Read More 14



July 19, 2005 at 14:11:08, Name_First: sunita, LAST: pattanaik, City: Berhampur,India, EMAIL: law_u_i@yahoo.co.in,

I appriciate ur way of thinking but can't agree to the apprehensions U posses regarding the Act on domestic violence against women
According to U there should be no law as it is not fully implimented.can U plz tell me ....Read More 13


July 19, 2005 at 07:42:16, Name_First: swarup, LAST: Sarkar, City: Delhi , India , EMAIL: swa_rup@yahoo.co.uk

Have you seen the WHO report ??? Activity by some Daughter-In-LAW

World Health Organisation (WHO) Report: In India, Women Abuse Elders (in-laws) by False Dowry Cases.
One question to all, if any one abuse your mother and sister in the road what you will do???

Now when a daughter in law abuse mother and sister, what action you recommended??.......Read More 12

 


June 26, 2005 at 22:32:36, Name_First: Vina, LAST: Raj , EMAIL: vina.raj369@gmail.com

Who knows the trye story behind Nisha Sharma, If he story is true why the case is not completed, dowry is illegal and it has to be stoped, these legal provisons should not be used to harrase the innocent check, the other side of the story in nisha case, what munish...Read More 11


June 15, 2005 at 14:18:55, Name_First: vinod, LAST: singh , City: india, EMAIL: bhandari_vinod@hotmail.com

sir,
I was looking for a way out from this type of situation as u have mention in this artical. My family is also going through this humiliation for the past two years. Two years ago, my Brother-in-law's wife registered a false complaint against my mother-in-law....Read More 10


We came to Shaifali Aggarwal(IBM professional) from Munirka New Delhi has but the false dowry case against her husband and she went to abroad Sweden after filling the case and poor husband was running after the police ....Anju__More


Similarlly harrased case done by Shaifali Aggarwal from Munirka,New Delhi.Software engineer by profession and theratened to file case against her husband .....Delhi , gautam_drakes@yahoo.com..(0508).....More


Seema,
It is not being a male alone. Neither the dowry or mental harassment to wife is justified. I am a male and had huge problems adjusting .Neel Grundfo, Pune, neel_grundfo@yahoo.com...0507.....More


This is damaging India a lot, In this lot of national wastage and harassment to people involved...So It is better to become goonda...... Vijay Raj, India, raj369369@yahoo.com...0506.......More


IMMIGRATION VILLIANS- False dowry complaints have become a racket-There are growing number of "VISA WEDDINGS" in which Indian girls dreaming of better life style or unable to get matrimonial acceptance in India seek matrimony with non resident Indians (NRI's and PIO's)....Gope Lalwani [gopelalwani@yahoo.co.in.0505........More

I read some of the articles where the NRI husbands have been abused by their wifes by wrongful dowry/cruelty allegations. I have been a victim to similar allegation. I am an H1B Software professional...Los Angles, la2004la2004@yahoo.com...0504.........More


First of all, Shreedhar, you are a guy and you are speaking on behalf of men who are harressed by their wives on wrong Dowry charges. Why is it that all you (???) are so concerned about the men, ....Seema, Banglore........More 0501a


If you are a victim of dowry-immigration fraud you can get help via this site or write to me.gorky_maskim@yahoo.com Maksim, India


Everyone knows about it..Reason no one in india bothers..As long as corruption is wide spread...AUTO arrests of NRI parents, sisters .....sreedhar basetti, USA 0501b....More


A book written recently "Mard bhi jism bechte hain....jahez ke liye" (Dowry or Male prostitution?) is worth reading, particularly to know about the Islamic point of view about this evil.The book is available at Gawah weekly office, 2nd floor, Bachelor Building, MJ Market, Hyderabad - 1, it says those who take dowry by demand or by willingness of the guardians of the brides are worse than the adulterers, according to the Quran and Hadeeth.
Also available at Jeddah, dubai and kuwait. For a free copy please contact : aleemfalki@yahoo.com
.....aleem khan


She has become well-known in India for calling the police to arrest her bridegroom after he asked her father for more dowry money. The custom of dowry is outlawed in India. Anyone who gives and receives it can be imprisoned. Nisha Sharma is brave for turning her bridegroom in and she is proud of what she has done. She spoke out against a practice that affects the families of many young girls and women...By R.sharma, Toronto


Two cheers for Nisha Sharma for bucking one of society's most archaic customs. Nisha Sharma turned her rather smarmy husband-to-be over to the police. His crime? Asking for dowry; and on their wedding day no less! Now she is a folk hero. She has received marriage offers from admiring suitors, a chance at political office, and other sundry offers. She has refused them all and, instead, will concentrate on finishing her degree....Bravo, Nisha.

Glad to see people stand up to out-dated and barbaric traditions. Hopefully, people who hear about the actions of Ms. Sharma will see that it is possible to overcome and destroy traditions that are designed to "be-little" certain groups of people. We are the youth of the world and we have the power to build our OWN future.... by: Lavesh


How unfortunate that people like Nisha Sharma make international news headlines, yet no one sheds any light on the other side of the story. Hundreds of innocent men and their elderly parents are falsely accused of demanding dowry, in a scam that gets the bride a large sum of cash as settlement. In Nisha Sharma's own words, "No one should submit to social blackmail," yet that's exactly what these powerless victims have to succumb to to free themselves of legal complications and to protect their family's reputation. Please let the public also be aware of the corruption and cruelty that is going on in India because of the Dowry Prohibition Act. ... By Posted by: ss

Nisha Sharma- an Indian Idol A bride who got the police to arrest her bridegroom has become something of a celebrity in India."It has robbed me of my voice - all this constant re-telling of my story - but I am loving every second of it because I do believe it is something young girls and women in general need to know about," Thousand cheers for Nisha...... by Raj Aryan


Dowry system is going on from years & years in our country. No changes have come in the attituteof people about dowry. Today thou we are living in 21st century but still ....... Poonam Khaunte 01c...More

 

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