Promoting family & marital harmony and equality in justice for all
OUR DEMANDS
1. Bring dowry act and cruelty laws under civil laws.
Make 498a bailable , non-cognizable and compoundable.
Replace the word 'husband' or 'wife' with 'spouse' in all related laws, so as to ensure equality in law for man & women.
Make provisions for a man to file complaint when a wife and in-laws harass him and commit cruelty. Create sections 498B and 304C in IPC to protect men and women in his family, when perpetrators of crime are daughters-in-laws and their family.
Make provision for penalty on a false complainant by amending IPC 498a. Lodging a complaint u/s 498a IPC has become a tool of manipulation, legal blackmail and legal terrorism in the hands of certain unscrupulous people.
2. Speedy and fair trial in all marital disputes.
3. Make registration of marriages compulsory. Gifts at time of marriage must be listed and photographed.
4. Ensure fair and unbiased investigation & trial of Dowry related complaints, which is totally in favor of daughter-in-law and disregards the trauma caused to mothers and sisters due to a false complaint. Judiciary and enforcement agencies must recognize the possibility of wives and daughter in laws maltreating the husband and old in-laws or other vulnerable members of the husband’s family.
5. Distant relatives not routinely living with the couple should not be allowed to be named in the complaint and excluded routinely.
6. Fathers should not be routinely deprived of child custody by assuming mother is best for the child. Child should not be made to choose between parents and joint custody preferred.
7. No passport surrender and unnecessary travel restrictions should be imposed at the time of bail.
8. Elder abuse in the name of IPC 498a should be absolutely stopped.
9. Government employees should not face compulsory suspension in case arrested due to a false complaint.
10. Legislation involving domestic issues should be enacted keeping in view the preservation of institution of marriage and should not adversely affect marriage, family and social harmony.
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