Real reason why government wants ‘dowry evil’ to continue!

When there were few deaths of students due to ragging, there was much outcry and government showed its resolve to put an end to ragging by establishing an anti-ragging helpline.  See the information on anti-ragging helpline on website of department of higher education below:

http://www.education.nic.in/UHE/Antiragging.asp

Further the complaints on the number can be made in 10 languages.

Now our government is really ashamed of dowry deaths as per news below:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-71390.html

New Delhi, Mar 16 : Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar today said dowry death is a shame and a blot on the society.

Ms Kumar's observation came during Question Hour.

Earlier, Home Minister P Chidambaram emphasised that people who kill their young wives for the sake of dowry have to be punished.

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So after having been ashamed enough, what better can government do to prevent dowry deaths?

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You guessed it: start an anti-dowry helpline number in all Indian languages.

Anyone will be able to complain about any dowry giving in any wedding they happen to see.  In fact a small reward can be given to ‘informants’ and their identity can be kept secret so that they don’t have to face the ignominy of possibly breaking a marriage.

Will the government do it?  No.  Indians (parents of bride and bridegroom)  save for marriages and then splurge it around the marriage time.  This spending pattern means that many consumer goods and such industries are highly dependent on marriage spending.  It is in region of 50,000 crores per year and growing at 25% per year as per news below:

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/when-wedding-loans-toll-on-portals/226659/

According to industry estimates, the Indian wedding market is worth Rs 50,000 crore and is growing at 25 % annually.

Depending on the size and grandeur, a wedding can cost anywhere between Rs 5 lakh-10 crore.

So curbing on dowry would mean all kind of gift-giving will have to be curbed.  That can work in foreign countries where couples save for their own needs for when they get married.  And then they may buy goods slowly over time rather than in one go.  In India however, the marriage spending is done primarily by parents since it is thought of as their responsibility by traditions.

If gift giving is curbed, then many industries will get hit hard and they will not want government to enact any real measure to stop dowry!

Hillary Clinton at her sexist best, now targeting India

Here is news of recent speech of Hillary Clinton on women’s and girls’ issues:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/0312/Hillary-Clinton-at-UN-Women-s-progress-is-human-progress

Let’s look at the insidious and insistent campaign of feminists crying solely about injustice to women, while being completely silent on the fact that men are not doing any better.

and the continued enhancement of the status of women. “Women’s progress is human progress, and human progress is women’s progress,” she said.

Those words were clearly meant to echo Secretary Clinton’s own words 15 years ago when, as the US first lady, she told the World Conference on Women in Beijing: “Women’s rights are human rights, and human rights are women’s rights.”

So earlier Human was meant to be Men + Women.

By new definition of feminists : Human = Woman

How can one be more sexist than that?

But women also encounter harrowing new challenges in some regions, including a spike in politically motivated sexual violence, Clinton said. Meanwhile, other crimes against women – including what she called “gendercide” and forced childhood marriages – remain dark blots on the world.

And if someone only did calculation of how many men have died in innumerable wars in history, including in 20th century, maybe you will come to realize the women were doing relatively much better!

 

Now, Clinton said that both she and President Obama are working from the perspective that the “subjugation” of women anywhere is a “threat to the national security of the United States, and ... a threat to the world.”

Go figure that one out… subjugation of women anywhere is threat to United States… and it is the same US who was trying to shake hands with “good Taliban” a while back!  I wonder how do the “good Taliban” treat women?

See how Indian judges don’t allow perjury on women!

This judgment below is just one example how the Indian judges treat women as precious commodity.  Read the sentences in bold below to see how the trial court blankly refused to prosecute a woman for perjury in her maintenance case.  The ostensible reason given is so that the parties can avoid undue complication of the matrimonial dispute.  As if people come to court to hug each other!

 

    CRA No. 197 SB of 2010 (O&M) 1  IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

                       CHANDIGARH

                               CRA No. 197 SB of 2010 (O&M)

                               Date of decision: 25-1-2010

 Sunny Bhumbla .........Appellant Vs

Shashi .........Respondent   CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARBANS LAL

Present: Shri K.S.Boparai, Advocate, for the appellant.  HARBANS LAL, J.

            This appeal is directed against the order dated 5.12.2008  Annexure
P-1 passed by the court of learned Civil Judge (Senior Division)  Saheed Bhagat
Singh Nagar vide which he allowed the petition moved  under Section 9 of the
Hindu Marriage Act, for restitution of conjugal rights  leaving the parties to
bear their own costs and rejected the application  moved under Section 195/340
Cr.P.C.

            I have heard the learned counsel for the appellant, besides
perusing the record with due care and circumspection.  The learned counsel for
the appellant has submitted with great  eloquence that after the respondent
admitted in her cross-examination about  her employment, salary and inheritance
of the landed property, she again  placed on record another affidavit dated
27.8.2008 solemnly affirming  therein that she had inadvertently not mentioned
about the source of income  as well as employment in the earlier affidavit dated
14.8.2008. Thereafter  the appellant moved an application under Section 195 of
Cr.P.C. for  initiating proceedings against the respondent for submitting a
false affidavit CRA No. 197 SB of 2010 (O&M) 2  before the learned trial Court,
in order to get more maintenance from the  appellant. The learned trial Court
had assured the appellant that his said  application shall be decided alongwith
the main case. While deciding the  main petition, in paragraph No. 13 of the
judgment it has been observed that  "in support of her claim for interim
maintenance under Section 24 of the  Hindu Marriage Act, the
respondent/applicant had made certain assertions,  which were found to be
totally false and the same had apparently been done  by her in a deliberate
manner. Consequently even an application for  initiating suitable proceedings
against her on account of her having  submitted a false affidavit was also filed
by the petitioner on 3.9.2008.  Thereafter, the respondent did not press her
claim for interim maintenance,  but the same did not absolve her of the
liability of the aforesaid lapse. This  court, however, does not wish to
initiate any such proceedings against the  respondent with the hope that sooner
or later, the parties may be in a  position to resolve their dispute or else
this young couple may adopt such  other means so that they can part their ways
in a peaceful manner and  therefore, with a view to avoid undue complication of
the matrimonial  dispute, no action on account of submitting of the above false
affidavit etc.  is being initiated against the respondent."

             It is further argued that the learned trial Court has overlooked
the fact that the respondent has used the false affidavit in the judicial
proceedings. Therefore, all the ingredients of the offences of cheating,
forging and perjury etc. are made out and consequently, the order passed by  the
learned trial Court in not initiating the proceedings under Section 195  read
with Section 340 Cr.P.C. is illegal.

 CRA No. 197 SB of 2010 (O&M) 3  I have given a deep and thoughtful
consideration to these  submissions.

            A careful perusal of the observations rendered by the learned  trial
Court in paragraph No. 13 of the impugned judgment would reveal that  there is
not even a shred of reference to the application moved under  Section 195 read
with Section 340 Cr.P.C. This apart, no specific reasons  have been apportioned
for not initiating the action on the basis of the  alleged affidavit. The said
application having been moved under the  provisions of the Code of Criminal
Procedure was required to be disposed  of separately. It was not desirable on
the part of the learned trial Court to  decide the said application in a slip
shod manner by making mere passing  reference to the alleged affidavit. In the
application moved under Section  340 of the Cr.P.C. if the Court deems fit,the
inquiry has to be held whereas  in the present one, the impugned order is
absolutely silent as to whether or  not inquiry was held. There is specific
procedure which is to be followed  while disposing of an application moved under
Section 340 of the Criminal  Procedure Code. Section 340 of the Criminal
Procedure Code reads as  under:-

            "340.Procedure in cases mentioned in Sec.195--(1) When, upon  an
application made to it in this behalf or otherwise any Court  is of the opinion
that it is expedient in the interest of justice that  an inquiry should be made
into any offence referred to to in cl  (b) of sub-section (1) of Section 195,
which appears to have  been committed in or in relation to to a proceeding in
that  Court, or as the case may be, in respect of of a document  produced or
given in evidence in a proceeding in that Court, CRA No. 197 SB of 2010 (O&M) 4
such Court may, after such preliminary inquiry, if any, as it  thinks necessary.

         (a) record a finding to that effect.

         (b) make a complaint thereof in writing

         (c) send it to a Magistrate of the first class having  jurisdiction.

         (d) take sufficient security for the appearance of the accused  before
such Magistrate, or if the alleged offence is non-  bailable and the Court
thinks it necessary so to do, send  the accused in custody to such Magistrate;
and  (e) bind over any person to appear and give evidence before  such
Magistrate.

         (2) The power conferred on a Court by sub-section (1) in  respect of an
offence may, in any case where that Court has  neither made a complaint under
sub-section (1) in respect of  that offence nor rejected an application for the
making of such  complaint, be exercised by the Court to which such former  Court
is subordinate within the meaning of sub-section (4) of  Sec.195.

               (3) A complaint made under this section shall be signed  (a)
where the Court making complaint is a High Court,  by such officer of the Court
as the Court may  appoint.

               (b) in any other case, by the presiding officer of the  Court,
and

               (4) In this section, "Court" has the same meaning as in CRA No.
197 SB of 2010 (O&M) 5  Sec.195."

            A glance through the impugned order would reveal that the  learned
trial Court has given a go by to the provisions of Section 340  Cr.P.C. The
approach adopted by the learned trial Court is unwholesome  and is depreciable.
The impugned order is absolutely silent as to whether the  application has been
dismissed or allowed, if so for which reasons.  In consequence of the preceding
discussion the trial Court is  directed to decide the application under
discussion in accordance with law.  This appeal stands disposed of accordingly.

   (HARBANS LAL)

                                                      JUDGE

   January 25, 2010

RSK

NOTE: Whether to be referred to the Reporter or not? Yes/No 

Women empowerment – Chinese way

Some Chinese women have taken to dancing on streets in underwear in a bid to attract men/husbands.  And I thought the sex-ratio in China was skewed towards men, so actually it should be men doing a show on the street to attract women for marriage!

Well girls, don’t blame men if you can’t find husbands.

http://current.com/1pl3c4c

A group of masked women caused controversy in China by dancing in the street in their underwear in a bid to find husbands.

The eight young women said they were coming under intense pressure from their families to settle down before "it was too late".
They braved the weather to strip down to their bras and pants outside a subway station in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, and danced for passers-by.

The girls handed out sheets of paper with their personal details and the kind of men they hoped to marry, reports Guangzhou Daily.
And they held boards with slogans such as: 'Brother, marry me!', 'My mom is pushing me for marriage!', and 'Time flies, let's date!'.

Could women take over the whole parliament excluding men?

Someone sent this analysis of Women’s reservation bill in its present form, wherein seats are reserved for women candidates only by rotation in every election.  It does look like a scary scenario, given the fact that as of now, a woman candidate has higher chance of being elected (1 in 12) compared to a man (1 in 15) in Lok Sabha.  So although only few women candidates stand for elections right now, the electorate has shown a preference for women candidates overall.  It could also be that since only few women candidates are given tickets by political parties, these few women are better candidates compared to men.

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The WRB rotation formula is a big conspiracy of radical feminists.

Consider Below:
33% Reservation to women means

Consider the case with only 3 seats(suppose there are only 3 seats in parliament)

after WRB becomes a law

FIRST ELECTION
First seat reserved so any woman and only woman will be elected.

SECOND ELECTION after 5 years
First seat will be open seat now but again the woman who won earlier could contest this seat and most likely to win if she has done good work for constituency.

The 2nd seat is reserved for woman so only woman will win on this seat . SO AFTER 5 YEARs there will be 2 women against these 3 seats and its 66%.

THIRD ELECTION after 10 years
Now the women earlier contested on 1 & 2nd seats in earlier election will be having strong possibility of winning if they have served the constituency well.

Now the 3rd seat will be reserved for women so only women can win. So in all the 3 seats there will be women and its 99% women.
So after (3 elections) 15 years there will be hardly any male parliamentarian in idle situation.

This is the actual rationale behind this WRB. Now those (Males) who are with the Women reservation please apply mind and act accordingly.

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Although this could be scary scenario for men candidates, however the assumption in above analysis is that the women candidates always do good work for constituency when they were elected on woman-only seat, so that the electorate rewards them next time when they stand for same seat which is now open to men and women.  So if women are winning by doing good work, then why the hell there is need for reserving seats?  Let political parties give enough seats to women (say at least 33%) to contest and let it be a be a fair match while upholding democratic values too.

Only feminists can see permanent halo around women

According to news of this Feb 2009 report from United Nations, women are the majority of traffickers in almost a third of 155 nations surveyed by UN.  This goes to show that both genders have their share of human weaknesses and crime, and one should not assume blindly that world will be a better place if only more women were in political power, in corporate leadership, as CEOs or whatever else feminists want you to believe.

Women are the majority of traffickers in almost a third of the 155 nations the U.N. surveyed. They accounted for more than 60 percent of the human trafficking convictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

For many, human trafficking is a world they had been pulled into themselves.

"Women commit crimes against women, and in many cases the victims become the perpetrators," Antonio Maria Costa, director of the Vienna-based U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said in an interview. "They become the matrons of the business and they make money. It's like a drug addiction."

Increase women representation, don’t create quotas

Karan Thapar has succinctly put the problems of Women Reservation Bill (WRB) in its current form, in an article here.

First, as a principle, reservations cause offence because they amount to discrimination. India accepts that the scheduled castes and tribes (SC/ST), given their special history, deserve reservations. No such consensus exists for women.

Second, on top of 22.5 per cent for SC/ST, 33 per cent for women (although some of it would overlap) would push up total reservations in the Lok Sabha to around 48 per cent. It means non-SC/ST men (78 per cent of the male population) can only contest 52 per cent of the Lok Sabha seats! Is this acceptable in a democracy?

Third, the way these 33 per cent seats are to be reserved will undermine the key relationship in a parliamentary democracy between an MP and his/her constituency. This is because they are reserved for only one out of a set of three elections. Clearly, therefore, the winning women MPs will have limited incentive to nurture their constituencies. Indeed, this could also apply to the MPs they replace. That’s possibly 66 per cent of the Lok Sabha!

The solution is disarmingly simple as several people have mentioned and Thapar also outlines below.  It is just that the political parties are used to making simple issues into complex beasts, and then indulge in name calling each other trying to fool people that they are doing it all in people’s interests.  Maybe there is a political mindset in India that every problem has to be solved by creating a quota of some kind in favour of the people who demand their rights.

But perhaps the best way is to emulate Tony Blair. In 1997 he increased the number of women candidates fielded by the Labour party, ensuring that over 100 were elected. In our case the Representation of People’s Act could be amended, requiring parties to field a minimum percentage of women candidates.

To ensure political parties don’t circumvent the spirit of this requirement by choosing women for unwinnable seats — e.g. the Samajwadi Party fulfilling the law by fielding women from Tamil Nadu, where they stand no chance of winning — the amendment could say that the percentage has to be implemented state-wise.