Topic: anti-dowry law

Of the at least 35 judgments that dominated headlines in 2018, ThePrint takes a look at 7 key orders passed by the top court.

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The two MPs call for an amendment to anti-dowry law, say men are scared of marriage and that's why they prefer live-in relationships.

Women and Child Development Minister’s statement is significant because activists have been highlighting that there is a pushback against women-centric laws.

Aruna Sharma’s statement, and our instinctual response to subvert women’s voices and dilute legitimacy, sheds light on a collective internalised misogyny we all need to question.

Senior bureaucrat Aruna Sharma has lashed out at what she calls the “narrow approach in the name of women’s rights”. She believes this has led to a rampant misuse of law by women, asserting that such “activism” is resulting in men losing faith in the judiciary and the institution of marriage. Is the call to revisit some of our gender laws and their implementation valid or exaggerated? What steel secretary Aruna Sharma wrote about the misuse of Section 498-A, and protecting men from baseless complaints were her personal views. But she has highlighted a truism which is almost never discussed, but ought to be. Section 498-A is sometimes misused and rather that helping women, sexual harassment laws are being used for extortion. In July 2017, the apex court wrote a 20-page order explaining how the provision was being misused, and set out a detailed process to be followed before any arrest could...

Senior bureaucrat Aruna Sharma has lashed out at what she calls the “narrow approach in the name of women’s rights”. She believes this has led to a rampant misuse of law by women, asserting that such “activism” is resulting in men losing faith in the judiciary and the institution of marriage. Is the call to revisit some of our gender laws and their implementation valid or exaggerated? While a number of Supreme Court judgments have taken cognisance of the misuse of Section 498-A of the IPC and even gone as far as calling it “legal terrorism”, no government has so far taken any action in this regard for fear of being termed anti-women. Little do they realise that the mothers and sisters of falsely implicated husbands are also women in distress, and as many as 40,000 women get arrested every year under Section 498-A. An alarming number of cases registered never lead...

Senior bureaucrat Aruna Sharma has lashed out at what she calls the “narrow approach in the name of women’s rights”. She believes this has led to a rampant misuse of law by women, asserting that such “activism” is resulting in men losing faith in the judiciary and the institution of marriage. Is the call to revisit some of our gender laws and their implementation valid or exaggerated? On this issue, I have a whole lot of instances to go by, both as a journalist and as a part of an extended Punjabi family. I have seen an uncle and aunt, both senior officers in the Punjab government, spend almost a week in jail after the marriage of a nephew went awry. The elderly couple met the bahu for the first and last time at the wedding, but she got almost every close relative booked and jailed for domestic violence and demanding...

I do not agree with Sharma’s sweeping assertions. Firstly, she does not care to address the fact that the basic problem regarding women and their rights persists.