Irony – in – Law
1. From Orissa rural regions:
A 92 years old widow who can barely stand up straight on her own is being accused for harassing her daughter-in-law for dowry. And if you think that this ludicrous charge would be thrown out right away by the police - at least looking at the physical and mental state of the woman - then you are dead wrong!
This woman was arrested and dragged by the police to the Magistrate, who then saw the atrocity committed.
And this is the sad part of laws which "empower" women and the women groups so vehemently oppose tinkering with. These very laws send an old and frail mother-in-law or a young marriageable sister-in-law to the jail. The tragedy in
I say, why not? If a daughter-in-law can have the "legal empowerment" provided by the State to blackmail her husband into doing such acts, then why would not she do it? Why live in a big family when you can live separately and enjoy the full pleasures of life and do nothing for the in-laws and others in the husband's family. Why give away space and time and money to people who are not legally empowered (atleast not as much as the wife) to ask husband for support.
Such is the sad state of Indian families today. More than 40,000 women who are someone’s mother and or sister and or daughter are arrested by the police under IPC498A in
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