* Need for new laws

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legal system must evolve, make appropriate laws and enforce them to regulate inter faith marriage, marriage brokers, and exploitation of women by unscrupulous people in the name of love

Marriage being an essential institution, whosoever is associated with it must be appropriately qualified and licensed. Those who seek such recognition must be required to learn the personal laws of various religious communities. Their credentials must also include back ground check, knowledge of community, among other things. A district registry of all people who wish to enter into wed lock must be kept and before the marriage is solemnized, clearance from appropriate officials must be obtained. Before marriage, parties involved must be educated of various constraints imposed upon people by religion and society, especially by the so called religious scholars. In respect of marriages which involves inter faith couple, they must be tested to exhibit their knowledge of the restrictions and allowances each others religion imposes on them. The age limit for individuals, especially females, taking independent decisions must be raised to at least 25. Break up of a marriage imposes heavy social burden in the female. Therefore, guidelines for appropriate severance compensation and continued support must be laid down and made mandatory. This must be seriously implemented in respect of inter faith marriages. Those individuals who facilitate, aid or abet inter faith marriage must submit three months notice to the appropriate official and public in the newspaper to invite objections if there are any. No objection certificates from the parents must be submitted along with the application for marriage license. Those who perform such marriages as well as those who facilitate aid or abate such marriages must be made accountable for lapses arising out of their lack of or knowledge of or disobedience of the law.

There is a disturbing trend of having convenience stores, cool drinks or fruit stalls very close to bus stops and other places where men, women and children congregate. Many times, rowdies hang around these places and tease or harass young women. Such incidents not only cause inconvenience and disruption of public use of the infra structure, it also lead to violence in the community. Therefore, such business must not be located closer than 200 meters of the public infra structure. There should not be such privately owned businesses on public owned places. If the courts can order destruction of places of worship on public places, which are mostly Hindu temples, the courts should not have hesitation or unwillingness to remove such business at close locations to harass traveling people.

Hair is an important part of anatomy. For women who grow long hair, cutting it is like amputation of an extremity. Long or short, no woman would desire to have her head shaved. When a woman’s hair is cut or her head shaved, the guilty party must be convicted for felony as serious as cutting an extremity or blinding a person. When there are separate systems of law like Hindu Personal Law, Christian Personal Law and Muslim Personal Law there should be no leniency in the application of law.

Lawless people get away easily at the expenses of law abiding citizens. Innocent and unarmed people are always at the mercy of rowdies carrying dangerous weapons. Most often, police are harsh on innocent people, while law breakers easily escape the law. The administration of justice must not trivialize peaceful community life.