SC frames guidelines for determining live-in relations
Views : Great step..SC should frame guideline in the grey area of sex harassment accusations and the reasonable time for the accusation.
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Tarun Tejpal arrested
Views : Let law take its own course...
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9.33 pm: Tarun Tejpal arrested
9.28 pm: Legal team and Tejpal's family members leave the crime branch office. Crime branch police wait for the court's order
9.25 pm: Investigating Officer Sunita Sawant talking to Tejpal at the crime branch police station
9.14 pm: PTI reports: Investigation Officer says they will arrest Tejpal shortly
9.05 pm: Goa DGP said the next logical step was Tejpal's arrest. He said he was studying the court order
9.00 pm: Times Now reports: Definitely, this was perception management. Tejpal team didn't want Goa police to come to Delhi and bring him as a prisoner - it was some kind of a PR exercise. When the defence presented its case, it argued that if the victim was really harassed, why was she not distraught. Victim's letters and emails constitute 80 per cent of the evidence. But her statement before the magistrate was solid evidence for prosecution.
8.55 pm: Tejpal's family arrives at the crime branch police station at Dona Paula
8.50 pm: Geetha Luthra, defence counsel, says the conduct of Tejpal shows that he is willing to cooperate with the investigation team. Tejpal has already joined the investigation by going to the Goa crime branch police station ahead of the court order, says Luthra
8.30 pm: After over three hours, judge passed the order. Tarun Tejpal to be formally arrested after the Inspecting Officer reaches Goa Police crime branch office. Goa court has allowed Tarun Tejpal's lawyer to meet him once a day during interrogation
8.21 pm: Goa sessions court has denied anticipatory bail to Tarun Tejpal. He is likely to be arrested. Tejpal has been allowed visit from his family as well as home food. Within 24 hours of the court order, Tejpal has to be taken for additional remand.
8.10 pm: Goa sessions court has denied anticipatory bail to Tarun Tejpal
8.00 pm: Wrapping up her arguments, Tarun Tejpal's lawyer Geeta Luthra said false allegation of rape can bring distress to the accused and cause equal damage to him as to the complainant. She said as the rape law has become more stringent, it is all the more required for the accused to defend himself for which "his liberty may be preserved".
Live: Tarun Tejpal arrested
Goa sessions court, which heard arguments from both prosecution and the defence, had earlier denied bail to Tejpal
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9.28 pm: Legal team and Tejpal's family members leave the crime branch office. Crime branch police wait for the court's order
9.25 pm: Investigating Officer Sunita Sawant talking to Tejpal at the crime branch police station
9.14 pm: PTI reports: Investigation Officer says they will arrest Tejpal shortly
9.05 pm: Goa DGP said the next logical step was Tejpal's arrest. He said he was studying the court order
9.00 pm: Times Now reports: Definitely, this was perception management. Tejpal team didn't want Goa police to come to Delhi and bring him as a prisoner - it was some kind of a PR exercise. When the defence presented its case, it argued that if the victim was really harassed, why was she not distraught. Victim's letters and emails constitute 80 per cent of the evidence. But her statement before the magistrate was solid evidence for prosecution.
8.55 pm: Tejpal's family arrives at the crime branch police station at Dona Paula
8.50 pm: Geetha Luthra, defence counsel, says the conduct of Tejpal shows that he is willing to cooperate with the investigation team. Tejpal has already joined the investigation by going to the Goa crime branch police station ahead of the court order, says Luthra
8.30 pm: After over three hours, judge passed the order. Tarun Tejpal to be formally arrested after the Inspecting Officer reaches Goa Police crime branch office. Goa court has allowed Tarun Tejpal's lawyer to meet him once a day during interrogation
8.21 pm: Goa sessions court has denied anticipatory bail to Tarun Tejpal. He is likely to be arrested. Tejpal has been allowed visit from his family as well as home food. Within 24 hours of the court order, Tejpal has to be taken for additional remand.
8.10 pm: Goa sessions court has denied anticipatory bail to Tarun Tejpal
8.00 pm: Wrapping up her arguments, Tarun Tejpal's lawyer Geeta Luthra said false allegation of rape can bring distress to the accused and cause equal damage to him as to the complainant. She said as the rape law has become more stringent, it is all the more required for the accused to defend himself for which "his liberty may be preserved".
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Friday, 29 November 2013
Shocked, shattered by sexual harassment allegations, says former SC judge Ganguly
Views : Whether, the judge committed the offence is not a matter at all . Allegation is the matter and the "punishment". Prove innocence is almost impossible in these cases.
Shocked, shattered by sexual harassment allegations, says former SC judge Ganguly
A young lawyer had earlier this month told a legal news portal that a "recently retired" judge with whom she was working earlier had sexually harassed her
PTI
"I am denying everything. I have told the committee that all the allegations levelled by the intern are wrong. I don't know how such allegations have been levelled against me," he said.
He was giving his reaction after an apex court official released a statement that Justice Ganguly had recorded his statement before a three-judge committee that went into the intern's allegations and has submitted its report to the Chief Justice of India.
The apex court official statement said Justice Ganguly had recorded his statement to the three-judge committee headed by Justice R M Lodha. The report was handed over to CJI Justice P Sathasivam on Thursday.
"I totally deny the allegations. I am a victim of situations," he told television channels.
"I am not ashamed of anything," he said in reply to a question in regard to the alleged episode which came out in public domain after the intern spoke about in a legal portal earlier this month.
He said the charges against him were totally wrong. The girl had not raised any sexual harassment issue with him, he said, adding that he had not done any physical harm to her.
The former judge said the intern worked with him though she was not officially allocated to him. She came in the place of another intern who had gone abroad after marriage. "I never put up a poster. She came on her own."
He said the girl had come to his house on a number of occasions in connection with the work.
Asked about the charge that he had asked her to come to a hotel room, Justice Ganguly said he was in Delhi at that point of time in connection with work and she was also in Delhi.
"I know what she has said. The question is that when I was in Delhi she was also in Delhi. She came on her own to my...," he said.
"If anybody feels uncomfortable to work with me she was free to leave," he said, adding that there was inconsistency that she has respect for him and there was no rancour.
He said that the intern was like his child and he treated her that way.
Asked if he was worried whether the three-judge committee will pass strictures against him, he said, "I don't know what kind of strictures will be there."
To another question if he felt that the committee could have preconceived notions about him, he said,"I am not saying anything."
Asked whether the allegations have cast a shadow on him, he said, he has faith in people and the people will judge him by his "conduct" and by his judicial work.
Justice Ganguly, who demitted office on February 12 last year, said that if this trend continues it will be difficult for the upright judges to continue to work.
"I have worked with several interns in my life, a large number of them and I treat them like my children. They are all well placed in several places in their lives and nobody has made such allegations. I am shocked and shattered."
He said that his case be not compared with that of Tarun Tejpal. "Don't compare this case with Tejpal. Please," he told to a television channel.
To a question if asked to prove ..., Justice Ganguly shot back "how can I prove the negative."
The intern had earlier this month told a legal news portal that a "recently retired" judge with whom she was working earlier had sexually harassed her.
Hit by the allegation, the Supreme Court constituted the three-judge committee to go into the charge of the intern.
Justice Ganguly was elevated to Supreme Court on December 17, 2008 and demitted office on February 3, 2012.
The intern, in a blog, had accused the retired judge of having misbehaved with her in a hotel room last December when the nation was grappling with the gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman in the national capital.
On November 18, the intern appeared before the panel and gave details of the incident and on November 21, she had sent certain applications and affidavits to the panel.
While setting up the panel on November 12, Justice Sathasivam had observed that he was concerned as head of the institution (judiciary).
"In the cases of sexual harassment, we cannot take it lightly," the CJI had said.
The young woman intern had first come out in public by writing her experience and ordeal in a blog of NGO 'Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment', with which she has been working.
She has also got support and solidarity from her employer NGO.
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Live-in relationship neither a crime nor a sin: SC
Views : Marriage or Live-in -relationship is the choice of people. The people who entered into the live-in -relationship always know the merit and shortcomings . It is better to let them live their own ways and choice . If the live-in -relation turns into same the legal procedure of marriage what is the difference between them ? Implication of the Dowry prevention act ,Domestic Violence Act ,498 A IPC do not make any valuable sense in the matter live-in -relationship.
However, the children born out of such relationship should be protected by law.
New Delhi: Live-in relationship is neither a crime nor a sin, the Supreme Court has held while asking Parliament to frame law for protection of women in such relationship and children born out of it.
The apex court said unfortunately, there is no express statutory provision to regulate live-in relationships upon termination as these relationships are not in the nature of marriage and not recognised in law.
In the landmark judgement, a bench headed by Justice K S Radhakrishnan framed guidelines for bringing live-in relationship within the expression 'relationship in the nature of marriage' for protection of women from Domestic Violence Act.
"Parliament has to ponder over these issues, bring in proper legislation or make a proper amendment of the Act, so that women and the children, born out of such kinds of relationships be protected, though those types of relationship might not be a relationship in the nature of a marriage," the bench said.
"Live-in or marriage like relationship is neither a crime nor a sin though socially unacceptable in this country. The decision to marry or not to marry or to have a heterosexual relationship is intensely personal," the bench said, adding that various countries have started recognising such relationship.
The apex court said a legislation is required as it is the woman who invariably suffer because of breakdown of such relationship.
"We cannot, however, lose sight of the fact that inequities do exist in such relationships and on breaking down such relationship, the woman invariably is the sufferer," it said, noting "Live-in relationship is a relationship which has not been socially accepted in India, unlike many other countries".
The bench, however, said that legislature cannot promote pre-marital sex and people may express their opinion, for and against.
"Such relationship, it may be noted, may endure for a long time and can result pattern of dependency and vulnerability, and increasing number of such relationships, calls for adequate and effective protection, especially to the woman and children born out of that live-in relationship. Legislature, of course, cannot promote pre-marital sex, though, at times, such relationships are intensively personal and people may express their opinion, for and against," it said.
The bench, however, said that maintaining an adulterous relation would not come within the ambit of live-in relationship which is to be protected by law.
"Polygamy, that is a relationship or practice of having more than one wife or husband at the same time, or a relationship by way of a bigamous marriage that is marrying someone while already married to another and/or maintaining an adulterous relationship that is having voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person who is not one’s husband or wife, cannot be said to be a relationship in the nature of marriage," it said.
However, the children born out of such relationship should be protected by law.
Live-in relationship neither a crime nor a sin: SC
Apex court asks Parliament to frame law for protection of women in such relationships and children born out of it
Reuters
The apex court said unfortunately, there is no express statutory provision to regulate live-in relationships upon termination as these relationships are not in the nature of marriage and not recognised in law.
In the landmark judgement, a bench headed by Justice K S Radhakrishnan framed guidelines for bringing live-in relationship within the expression 'relationship in the nature of marriage' for protection of women from Domestic Violence Act.
"Parliament has to ponder over these issues, bring in proper legislation or make a proper amendment of the Act, so that women and the children, born out of such kinds of relationships be protected, though those types of relationship might not be a relationship in the nature of a marriage," the bench said.
"Live-in or marriage like relationship is neither a crime nor a sin though socially unacceptable in this country. The decision to marry or not to marry or to have a heterosexual relationship is intensely personal," the bench said, adding that various countries have started recognising such relationship.
The apex court said a legislation is required as it is the woman who invariably suffer because of breakdown of such relationship.
"We cannot, however, lose sight of the fact that inequities do exist in such relationships and on breaking down such relationship, the woman invariably is the sufferer," it said, noting "Live-in relationship is a relationship which has not been socially accepted in India, unlike many other countries".
The bench, however, said that legislature cannot promote pre-marital sex and people may express their opinion, for and against.
"Such relationship, it may be noted, may endure for a long time and can result pattern of dependency and vulnerability, and increasing number of such relationships, calls for adequate and effective protection, especially to the woman and children born out of that live-in relationship. Legislature, of course, cannot promote pre-marital sex, though, at times, such relationships are intensively personal and people may express their opinion, for and against," it said.
The bench, however, said that maintaining an adulterous relation would not come within the ambit of live-in relationship which is to be protected by law.
"Polygamy, that is a relationship or practice of having more than one wife or husband at the same time, or a relationship by way of a bigamous marriage that is marrying someone while already married to another and/or maintaining an adulterous relationship that is having voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person who is not one’s husband or wife, cannot be said to be a relationship in the nature of marriage," it said.
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Aarushi verdict: Serious miscarriage of justice, say lawyers
Aarushi verdict: Serious miscarriage of justice, say lawyers
Views : They deserve at least the benefit of doubt.
Views : They deserve at least the benefit of doubt.
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Aarushi murder case: Talwars get life term
Views:"I am happy that my forensic report ,based on circumstantial evidence .helped the crime CBI crack the Arushi Murder case"- says Dr.Mohinder Sigh Dahiya ,Director of the Institute of Forencic Science ,Gujarat .
(Report DNA English News paper with title - MS Dahiya's FSL report finally helped CBI establish the case)
Dahiya's Analysis says :
The triangular shape on Arushi's and Hemraj skull prove that they were hit on their head with golf club.As an afterthought to misguide the police ,their throat too were slit with a surgical knife and medical precision ,just like doctors..
The room was cleaned up after the murder and Hemaraj body was taken to terrace to prove that he was not killed in the bedroom.
Both victims were on the bed together when they were assaulted....
Scene of the crime in Arushi's bedroom may have been dressed up..
The analysis continues like this...
Based on a single analysis and the imagination of a forensic expert may not enough to punish somebody. This kind of circumstance evidence sometime may turn into tricky and dangerous.
In America , a person punished to death based on the a report of the fire safety officer ,some years back.
Then lately found that the report of the expert was scientifically wrong.However, it was late .The person who was accused for killing his own children by burnt the home already got death punishment.
More expert opinions and corroborative evidence are needed in this case for a final conclusion.
Aarushi murder case: Talwars get life term
A special CBI court held the parents - Rajesh and Nupur Talwar - guilty of the teenage girls's murder.
Yahoo India News – 2 hours 9 minutes ago
GHAZIABAD: A special CBI court today sentenced Rajesh and Nupur Talwar to life imprisonment for the murder of their teenaged daughter Aarushi and their domestic help Hemraj at their home.
The court awarded life sentence to the Talwars under Sec 302 of IPC, 5 years under Sec 203 and one year to Rajesh Talwar under Sec 201.
Judge Shyam Lal also sentenced the Talwars to five years in jail for destruction of evidence and Rajesh Talwar to an additional year in prison for giving false information to investigators.
Talwar's lawyer Rebecca John said that the couple will challenge the verdict and sentencing in Allahabad High Court.
Earlier, the CBI sought death penalty for dentist couple on charges of murdering their daughter and domestic help.
Public prosecutor RK Saini said the case comes under the 'rarest of rare category.
The court on Monday held the parents - Rajesh and Nupur Talwar - guilty of the teenage girl's murder, saying they were 'freaks' who 'became the killer of their own progeny'.
The couple - who were well known doctors with a thriving practice - were also convicted for the murder of their domestic help Hemraj.
Special CBI Judge Shyam Lal said that both the accused (Talwars) have "flouted the ferocious penal law of the land" and therefore are liable to be convicted in the double murder case.
"Now is the time to say omega in this case. To perorate, it is proved beyond reasonable doubt that the accused are perpetrators of the crime in the question. The parents are the best protectors of their own child that is in order of human nature but they have been freaks in the history of mankind where the father and mother became the killer of their own progeny," the judge said in a 204-page judgment.
It added: "They have extirpated their own daughter who had hardly seen 14 summers of her life and the servant without compunction from terrestrial terrain in the breach of commandment "Thou shalt not kill".
The Talwars were declared guilty of the crime under Sections 302 (Punishment for Death), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender),34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Section 203 (Giving false information respecting an offence committed) was also imposed on Rajesh Talwar.
The Talwars' daughter Aarushi, 14, and their Nepalese domestic help Hemraj, 45, were found with their throats slit at the doctors' residence in Noida adjoining Delhi in May 2008.
Police initially suspected the then missing Hemraj for Aarushi's killing but discovered his body from the terrace of the
Monday, 25 November 2013
Nupur and Rajesh Talwar found guilty of murdering Aarushi and Hemraj
Views: Truth ,facts and fiction are mixed in the case from starting itself. Final truth may be different.
Nupur and Rajesh Talwar found guilty of murdering Aarushi and Hemraj
Yahoo India News – 1 hour 19 minutes ago
Ghaziabad, Nov 25: Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were Monday held guilty of the murder of their teenaged daughter and domestic help in May 2008. The couple insisted that they were innocent.
The quantum of sentence will be pronounced tomorrow.
A special CBI court held both of them guilty of the sensational double murder in Noida, at the edge of New Delhi. A lawyer said the couple were in tears when the verdict was read out. The Talwars were convicted under sections 34, 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code. Rajesh Talwar was also convicted under section 203.
The Talwars said in a statement that they were "deeply disappointed".
"We are deeply disappointed, hurt and anguished for being convicted for a crime that has not been committed. We refuse to feel defeated and will continue to fight for justice," they said.
After the crime took place May 15, 2008, the case was investigated by Uttar Pradesh Police. During the probe, police suspected the involvement of Aarushi's parents, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar. Rajesh Talwar was arrested May 23, 2008.However, a fortnight after the murders, the case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) May 31, 2008. The bureau submitted its closure report Dec 29, 2010, when it could not establish the sequence of events.
In the absence of reliable evidence, the investigation agency said: "No one can be accounted accused."
During the trial, Jan 25, 2011, Rajesh Talwar was attacked in the court premises. The Talwars then applied to shift the trial from Ghaziabad to Delhi, but the application was rejected by the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, Khukla Banjhare, the 43-year-old widow of Hemraj alias M. Prasad Banjhare, a resident of Dharapani town in Arghakhanchi district of Nepal, submitted an application before the CBI court in which she alleged that her husband was killed by the Talwars.
She said Hemraj told her that his employers, the Talwar couple, were short-tempered people who scolded him over minor issues. He said they used to organise late night parties and that he was planning to change his job.
On Feb 28, 2011, a CBI special magistrate passed an order in which the closure report was rejected and summons were issued to Rajesh and Nupur Talwar.
The CBI's investigation officer, A.G.L. Kaul, said during his testimony that on the basis of the circumstances, he was convinced that the dentist couple killed their daughter.
During cross-examination, Kaul, however, admitted he had never seen such a surgical scalpel that could have been used to sever the throats of Aarushi and Hemraj.
Rajesh Talwar answered about 330 questions raised by the court from the recorded statements of the witnesses.
In the final arguments, the accused parents of Aarushi refuted the CBI theory that they killed their daughter and the servant in sudden provocation.
They said the CBI's claim during various stages of the probe that five different weapons -- hammer, knife, khukri, golf stick and surgical scalpel -- were used showed that the agency was not sure of what exactly happened.
On Nov 12, 2013, the CBI judge adjourned the court till Nov 25, the date set for the judgment.
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Ex-CBI man altered Rajiv death accuseds statement
Ex-CBI man altered Rajiv death accuseds statement
Views : Legal Play with Innocent life...Tax payers money used to feed the innocent people in Jails for the sake of the vested Interest..
Views : Legal Play with Innocent life...Tax payers money used to feed the innocent people in Jails for the sake of the vested Interest..
The Man jailed for 22 years , waiting to death punishment is innocent...?!
The Man who waiting to Death Punishment for 22 years in jail is innocent...?!
A Shocking Confession of the Investigation officer... !!
A CBI Former SP who investigated the case of Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Confessed to a TV News channel that he had changed the statement of the convict Perarivalan for the strength of the case .
Perarivalan said that he did know that the batteries which was bought by him would be used to make bomb to kill Rajiv Gandhi. However, this statement was not produced before the court. That why the perarivalan got death punishment . The Former SP regrets now - The breaking news continues...
Where is our criminal justice system headed to ?
Anybody can compensate the lost life of this poor man who has unable to
defend the case properly. He is still waiting the death punishment. His mercy petition was already rejected by the former president Pratibha Patil in 2011.
The offence of the Perarivalan is to bought battery to make bomb.
That poor man just bought some batteries. He did not know what the purpose of the act. However, he was framed in the conspiracy offence for the strength of the case.
The designated court had in 1998 imposed death penalty on 26 persons but when reached the Supreme court ,Capital Punishment was confirmed only for four -
Nalini, Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan..
What the Former Supreme Court Justice says who sentenced them
Over the 13 years after confirming the death sentence of the three accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination as head of a Supreme court Bench , former judge
KT Thomas said six month before that it would be " Constitutionally Incorrect " to hang them as the convicts have spent 22 years in Jail without a " Review" of their case.
" We have not considered the nature and character of the accused who were sentenced to death penalty in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case , and so death sentence is against Article 22 of the constitution - Justice Thomas said the PTI.
What the illiterate mother of perarivalan says :
"What is the crime of my son ? He just bought some batteries without know anything. Everybody calls him as Rajiv Gandhi Killer .Nobody wants the truth...." -That mother cried before the media ,one year back . It was reported.
Hope this confession of the investigating officer may give some relief to her unnoticed sorrow.
A Poor Illiterate mother can not understand the procedure of the punishment and the working way of the criminal justice system....!
Friday, 22 November 2013
Tarun Tejpal charged with rape
Tarun Tejpal charged with rape
Views : What a free fall from the dignity...! All pillars of the our democracy are badly damaged day by day. What is the real solution? Social scientist and psychologist and psychiatrist should sit and think loudly about the problem.
Views : What a free fall from the dignity...! All pillars of the our democracy are badly damaged day by day. What is the real solution? Social scientist and psychologist and psychiatrist should sit and think loudly about the problem.
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Tehelka - Tarun Tejpal’s sexual misconduct :
Tehelka shocker: Outrage over Tarun Tejpal’s sexual misconduct
Views : Lawmakers, Judge, Executive, Media---All are vulnerable on sexual harassments...!!
Views : Lawmakers, Judge, Executive, Media---All are vulnerable on sexual harassments...!!
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Men's Right is a legal joke in India ? Men's day is another...!
Views : Men life is very vulnerable in India. All laws are favoured to women. No legal remedy.
Silent suffering is the only option. Celebrating the men's day does not make any difference.
Times of India
Silent suffering is the only option. Celebrating the men's day does not make any difference.
Harried by wives, Chennai men make 5000 complaints this year
CHENNAI: Manikandan, 40, a businessman from Velachery, thought he was a well-respected husband. That is, till business hit a downswing. He says his wife, a teacher, now beats him up every day because he earns less than her.
While the world on Tuesday observed International Men's Day — there is such a thing, after all, "a global occasion to celebrate the positive contributions and diverse experience (sic) of being male"; ref. facebook.com/international.mens.day — a growing number of men are approaching the Association for Protection of Men with complaints about being put through the dishwasher by their wives.
Chennai men appear to have it worst. The organization has received 5,000 complaints from men in the city this year. Of these cases, 400 have resulted in petitions for divorce. In Mumbai, 2,000 men complained to the organization this year.
The complaints range from ego clashes to sexual torture. A fair number of husbands (30%) can't get their wives out of their hair, mostly due to ego clashes. Around 20% of the cases were about wives picking up fights with their husbands over living in a joint family.
A similar number of men said their wives were dissatisfied with them in bed and had got involved in extramarital relationships. Around 10% said their wives dragged them to all-women police stations and lodged false complaints against them. As many as 500 of the 5,000 complainants said they were beaten up by their wives.
Some of the complaints that the association receives border on the bizarre. A man from Washermenpet, for example, said he did not want to live with his wife because she forced his brother to have sex with her whenever he was on night duty.
National Crime Records Bureau statistics show that, across the country, a married man commits suicide due to marital or financial pressure every eight minutes. Social activist S Syed Ali says Indian society offers little space for men to show signs of weakness, complain or seek help. "Most men who come to us with complaints have put up with nagging or abusive wives for a long time," he said.
While the world on Tuesday observed International Men's Day — there is such a thing, after all, "a global occasion to celebrate the positive contributions and diverse experience (sic) of being male"; ref. facebook.com/international.mens.day — a growing number of men are approaching the Association for Protection of Men with complaints about being put through the dishwasher by their wives.
Chennai men appear to have it worst. The organization has received 5,000 complaints from men in the city this year. Of these cases, 400 have resulted in petitions for divorce. In Mumbai, 2,000 men complained to the organization this year.
The complaints range from ego clashes to sexual torture. A fair number of husbands (30%) can't get their wives out of their hair, mostly due to ego clashes. Around 20% of the cases were about wives picking up fights with their husbands over living in a joint family.
A similar number of men said their wives were dissatisfied with them in bed and had got involved in extramarital relationships. Around 10% said their wives dragged them to all-women police stations and lodged false complaints against them. As many as 500 of the 5,000 complainants said they were beaten up by their wives.
Some of the complaints that the association receives border on the bizarre. A man from Washermenpet, for example, said he did not want to live with his wife because she forced his brother to have sex with her whenever he was on night duty.
National Crime Records Bureau statistics show that, across the country, a married man commits suicide due to marital or financial pressure every eight minutes. Social activist S Syed Ali says Indian society offers little space for men to show signs of weakness, complain or seek help. "Most men who come to us with complaints have put up with nagging or abusive wives for a long time," he said.
Friday, 15 November 2013
Monday, 11 November 2013
Can sexual harassment end by laws ?
Views : Can sexual harassment end by laws ? Dowry harassment ? Domestic Violence? Rape?
Sex ,Greed and violence are greatly connected to Behaviour and Character. Law makers ,Judges ,Ministers ,Saints .. Nobody is excluded. Day by day news and survey give a very dark picture . Law can alone do nothing to solve these issues.
Think "out of box " . Lot of behaviour and attitude changing measures are needed.
Laws are resting on the law books with little benefits..
The agony of the people is continuing.
Unfortunately , Social issue is not a matter to political parties and governments.
When social pressure arises ,they do acting..
Suffering of the individuals are unnoticed.
Intern alleges sexual harassment by Supreme Court judge
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The girl said the judge, who was "old enough to be her grandfather", harassed her in a hotel room at a time when Delhi had erupted against the brutal gang rape of Nirbhaya.
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NEW DELHI: A young lawyer has alleged that she was sexually harassed last December by a Supreme Court judge she was interning with and who "retired recently".
The girl, who graduated from Kolkata-based National University of Juridical Sciences this year, said the judge, who was "old enough to be her grandfather", harassed her in a hotel room at a time when Delhi had erupted against the brutal gang rape of Nirbhaya. She made the sensational charge first in blog she wrote on November 6 for 'Journal of Indian Law and Society', and repeated it on Monday in an interview to the website 'Legally India'.
The NUJS graduate said she had "cowardly" decided not to wage legal battle against her alleged tormentor but decided to speak out "as I felt I had a responsibility to ensure that other young girls were not put in a similar situation".
Currently a fellow with 'Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment', the young woman said she kept mum because of the high position the judge enjoyed and that she was too stunned and surprised at the time to even react with anger.
In her interview to 'Legally India', she said, "I have heard of three other cases (of sexual harassment) by the same judge and I know of at least four other girls who've faced harassment from other judges -- not perhaps as (bad as mine): most of them were in the chambers of the judge and other people around, so it never gets too bad. A girl I know faced continuous sexual harassment throughout and sexual advances, and actually faced troubles through her work because of it."
When contacted by TOI through e-mail, she said, "I have said all that I wish to say on the matter in the blog post and in the interview with Legally India. At this point, I do not think that I wish to discuss the issue any more."
In her blog, she had written, "Last December was momentous for the feminist movement in the country - almost an entire population seemed to rise up spontaneously against the violence on women, and the injustices of a seemingly apathetic government. In the strange irony of situations that our world is replete with, the protests were the backdrop of my own experience.
"In Delhi at that time, interning during the winter vacations of my final year in university, I dodged police barricades and fatigue to go to the assistance of a highly reputed, recently retired Supreme Court judge whom I was working under during my penultimate semester. For my supposed diligence, I was rewarded with sexual assault (not physically injurious, but nevertheless violating) from a man old enough to be my grandfather. I won't go into the gory details, but suffice it to say that long after I'd left the room, the memory remained, in fact, still remains, with me."
Why did she wait so long to come out with the charges? She wrote in her blog post, "All the talk during that time was of stricter punishment, of baying for the blood of 'creepy' men. Five years of law school had taught me to look to the law for all solutions - even where I knew that the law was hopelessly inadequate - and my reluctance to wage a legal battle against the judge left me feeling cowardly.
"On reflection though, I cannot help but wonder why I should have felt that way. As mentioned earlier, I bore, and still bear, no real ill-will towards the man, and had no desire to put his life's work and reputation in question. On the other hand, I felt I had a responsibility to ensure that other young girls were not put in a similar situation.
"Allowing myself to feel more than just anger at a man who violated me, something that I had never done before, is liberating! So, I want to ask you to think of one thing alone - when dealing with sexual violence, can we allow ourselves to embrace feelings beyond or besides anger, and to accept the complexity of emotions that we face when dealing with any traumatic experience?"
It will be interesting to see what action is proposed by the anti-sexual harassment committee, which was set up by the July 17 order of a bench headed by then Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir. The apex court framed regulations to protect women lawyers from sexual harassment at the hands of male counterparts within the court complex, including inside chambers within the court precincts.
The bench had taken a broader definition of "sexual harassment" to include sending of undesirable, sexually coloured text or voice messages or sexually explicit material to women advocates and also stalking. Complaints against sexual harassment would be heard by a Gender Sensitization and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC), which is headed by a sitting SC judge.
dhananjay.mahapatra@timesgroup.com
The girl, who graduated from Kolkata-based National University of Juridical Sciences this year, said the judge, who was "old enough to be her grandfather", harassed her in a hotel room at a time when Delhi had erupted against the brutal gang rape of Nirbhaya. She made the sensational charge first in blog she wrote on November 6 for 'Journal of Indian Law and Society', and repeated it on Monday in an interview to the website 'Legally India'.
The NUJS graduate said she had "cowardly" decided not to wage legal battle against her alleged tormentor but decided to speak out "as I felt I had a responsibility to ensure that other young girls were not put in a similar situation".
Currently a fellow with 'Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment', the young woman said she kept mum because of the high position the judge enjoyed and that she was too stunned and surprised at the time to even react with anger.
In her interview to 'Legally India', she said, "I have heard of three other cases (of sexual harassment) by the same judge and I know of at least four other girls who've faced harassment from other judges -- not perhaps as (bad as mine): most of them were in the chambers of the judge and other people around, so it never gets too bad. A girl I know faced continuous sexual harassment throughout and sexual advances, and actually faced troubles through her work because of it."
When contacted by TOI through e-mail, she said, "I have said all that I wish to say on the matter in the blog post and in the interview with Legally India. At this point, I do not think that I wish to discuss the issue any more."
In her blog, she had written, "Last December was momentous for the feminist movement in the country - almost an entire population seemed to rise up spontaneously against the violence on women, and the injustices of a seemingly apathetic government. In the strange irony of situations that our world is replete with, the protests were the backdrop of my own experience.
"In Delhi at that time, interning during the winter vacations of my final year in university, I dodged police barricades and fatigue to go to the assistance of a highly reputed, recently retired Supreme Court judge whom I was working under during my penultimate semester. For my supposed diligence, I was rewarded with sexual assault (not physically injurious, but nevertheless violating) from a man old enough to be my grandfather. I won't go into the gory details, but suffice it to say that long after I'd left the room, the memory remained, in fact, still remains, with me."
Why did she wait so long to come out with the charges? She wrote in her blog post, "All the talk during that time was of stricter punishment, of baying for the blood of 'creepy' men. Five years of law school had taught me to look to the law for all solutions - even where I knew that the law was hopelessly inadequate - and my reluctance to wage a legal battle against the judge left me feeling cowardly.
"On reflection though, I cannot help but wonder why I should have felt that way. As mentioned earlier, I bore, and still bear, no real ill-will towards the man, and had no desire to put his life's work and reputation in question. On the other hand, I felt I had a responsibility to ensure that other young girls were not put in a similar situation.
"Allowing myself to feel more than just anger at a man who violated me, something that I had never done before, is liberating! So, I want to ask you to think of one thing alone - when dealing with sexual violence, can we allow ourselves to embrace feelings beyond or besides anger, and to accept the complexity of emotions that we face when dealing with any traumatic experience?"
It will be interesting to see what action is proposed by the anti-sexual harassment committee, which was set up by the July 17 order of a bench headed by then Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir. The apex court framed regulations to protect women lawyers from sexual harassment at the hands of male counterparts within the court complex, including inside chambers within the court precincts.
The bench had taken a broader definition of "sexual harassment" to include sending of undesirable, sexually coloured text or voice messages or sexually explicit material to women advocates and also stalking. Complaints against sexual harassment would be heard by a Gender Sensitization and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC), which is headed by a sitting SC judge.
dhananjay.mahapatra@timesgroup.com
Battered housemaids: Growing trend, violated rights
Battered housemaids: Growing trend, violated rights
Views : Enough laws are sleeping on law books for the protection of all underprivileged. Make laws and leave the matter...No effective mechanism for implementation .That is the year old practice.
Views : Enough laws are sleeping on law books for the protection of all underprivileged. Make laws and leave the matter...No effective mechanism for implementation .That is the year old practice.
Friday, 1 November 2013
Does the sex crime accused has the right to protect his identity....?
Views: Assaram Case is highly sensitive and shocking . He has lakh of followers across world.
So, this kind of allegation has great news value. Media will do much coverage naturally.
However, if supreme court issue some guideline related to the sex crime reporting that may be a
fair to the accused.
Recently one person approached supreme court for getting back his social reputation.
He had been framed in a rape case by some police officers as a revenge. He was acquitted by the court. However, the society was not ready to accept his as a innocent person . People see him as a rapist. In that situation he approached the supreme court for getting back the reputation. This case was reported by national Media.
In rape cases, victim identity is protected by law. However, the identity of the accused does not has this kind of protection. As per the law , every accused has to be considered as innocent till his guilty is proved.
If somebody framed falsely in a rape case , his reputation will be lost for life long -whether he punished or acquitted is not a matter. The is a serious matter to be addressed .
Let the court find who is the guilty. The identity of the convict should be exposed after the punishment.
Leave the Assram Case. He has people power and money power.
If Assram is guilty ,he should be punished.
But most cases , the accused is very bad condition in financially and emotionally to manage the issue.
we should keep zero tolerance against the sex crimes . Same time ,the innocent people should be protected from the false accusation.
I am being projected as dracula, Asaram tells SC
Apex court, however, says it cannot ask media not to report on an information they get from police or other sources
PTI
The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam said that it cannot ask media not to report on an information they get from police or other sources after Asaram's counsel told the bench that the spiritual guru was being projected as a dracula.
The court told Asaram's counsel he had other remedies and the apex court was not the only destination as it was told that media was reporting that the spiritual guru's wife and daughter were supplying him girls.
Counsel told the court that he was not seeking to restrain the entire media, but only two news channels which were regularly carrying slanderous reports about Asaram.
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