Grahakjago (S.K.Virmani)©

Comments to Justice Verma Commission for amendment to Criminal Laws relating to safety and security of women                                                                                                                       Dt. 05/01/2013 Chairman, Hon’ble Justice J S Verma, Justice Verma Committee, New Delhi – 110001 Sub: Heinous crime of rape of 16 th December 2012 and the Government proposed leg...

While Madras High Court has ruled that Woman filing of a false case against the husband is "Guilty of cruelty" and granted Divorce on this ground but it is also equally surprising that despite the Honable Court proved that the woman is guilty of filing a false case and is a cruelty to the husband, still no punishment to the woman. Unless and until such woman and her beloved family is punished for such criminal action, such issues would be on uncontrollable rise. Yes the corruption in the police would also be on rise.

Is really the Domestic Violence Act being misused? While visiting face book I find many posts in the face book depicting that there is abundant misuse of domestic violence Act by women. There have been alarming statistics showing many numbers of cases being filed by many educated women and even some news items mentioning that the wife marry the innocent boys just to extort the money and then stay happily with their boy friends. There have been circulars issued by various Police Commissioners as well as comments made by hon'able judges in their judgement and even the Supreme Court has termed it as a Legal Terrorism. In order to have  some statistical analysis, I had submitted an application under RTI Act 2005 to Ministry of Home Affairs to seek certain details about the statistical figures pertaining to cases being filed by such women in the territory of Delhi falling under the jurisdiction of Delhi Police. In most probability such details would not be available and MHA would...