A VOICE FOR MEN (Work for gender equality) By Muskan Bhardwaj

You have seen usually people only talk about women’s right, feminism and uplifting of women. No one had ever talked about men’s right in our country. Our country while drafting the constitution had giving much more importance to the principle of equality for societal development.

Recently men’s right activist scored a significant victory for raising the voice against the injustice happening with Indian men’s in the name of fake feminism. These aggrieved men started a movement called THE MEN’S RIGHT MOVEMENT (MRM). This movement was basically started to fight for the introduction of gender neutral laws. However, the judges weren’t making the law on gender neutral.

MRM activists wanted:

• Introduction of gender neutral laws
• Revision of laws that were negatively biased against men
• And the termination of what they perceive as an internationally funded feminist agenda

These activists stated that women were filing inappropriate cases to claim of domestic violence and misusing the laws. This movement was started way back in 1988 in Delhi by Supreme Court advocate ram Praksh Chugh to fight against the injustice happening with the men’s related to the fake claims of dowry harassment. MRM primarily rally against anti-dowry laws, domestic violence laws, child custody laws and divorce laws in India.

MRM was not only fighting against fake claims of dowry or fake domestic violence case but also it was fighting against the false case filed by women’s for rape. So many false cases of rape were registered by women. According, to these activist many women were filing false cases of rape against men after a consensual relationship goes sour.

NOTE: DELHI COMISSION OF WOMEN STATED THAT RAPE CASES FILED BETWEEN 2013 AND 2014 WERE FOUND TO BE FAKE. IT ALSO STATED THAT 53% CASES OF RAPE FILED BY WOMEN WERE FALSE.

Section 498A which states that “Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty. Whoever being the husband or the relative of the husband of a woman, subjects her to cruelty shall be punished with imprisonment for a term, which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to a fine”

According this law if women file a case against her husband or in-laws then there will be an immediate arrest of those names in complaint. Due to this section even innocent men and his family were taken to jail. Women were given this section to protect themselves but slowly they all started to misuse it.

In 2005, on seeing the increasing cases which were false the Supreme Court ruled that husbands need to be protected against the misuse of the Section 498A. Accordingly, the Supreme Court repealed the automatic arrest provision. Instead of arresting immediately the Apex court ordered the police to first follow a nine point checklist in dowry complaints.

There is no significant record or study on domestic violence on men in India. Generally, it is estimated that in 100% of cases of domestic violence, 40% cases involve violence against men. There are many cases which are not even reported by men, and the main reason behind this is our social culture and values attached to men, which stop them to reporting violence and abuse against them.

Through studies it was come to know that husband who experienced domestic violence were well educated and highly qualified.

About 25.21% of men suffered physical violence, 22.18% experienced verbal and emotional abuse, 32.79% suffered with economical violence, and 17.82% of men suffered sexual abuse.

Firstly the false cases filed by women against men and now violence faced by men half of which is not reported by men.

WHY MEN TOLERATE THE ABUSE?

• They tolerate all these abuse for many reasons:
• They have the belief and hope that thing would get better
• Fear of losing social respect, position and respect.
• They are afraid of if things fall apart, in the end the men will only he has the power to deal with all the problems.

Violence against men is not considered to be serious because of different manifestation.

LAWS RELATED TO MEN’S RIGHT:

There are specific laws for women in India but no specific rules to safeguard men from women. Instead laws should be made in relation to domestic violence, sexual harassment and even in criminal cases.

The only way to stop fake cases is to work towards the rigorous prosecution of all false cases, false evidence and wrong investigation by police.

Law was set up in favor of women to uplift the weaker section of society. Way long back women was considered to be the weaker section of society and to uplift them by including article 14 in Indian constitution stating no discrimination on the base of gender.

Law has involved many sections to protect women but they all are misusing it due to which men are suffering. If law can favor women, then there will be no need to conduct any trial, conduct cross-examinations, involve in useless legal arguments.

It will be much easier to peruse the complaint and simply proving the husband as guilty and punished for 5 years in jail under IPC 498A etc.  Or simply take wife’s DV petition and award her the 70K per month and 5 lakh compensation she has asked for. 

Evidence law considered to be important men should aware of

Supreme Court can’t decide the guilt or liability of anyone without considering the evidence. Each and every case is dependent on true and original evidence. So, men should be well aware of this law to protect themselves from false cases.

Women are using these laws as a weapon against men by showing false evidences like fake jewelry list, vague allegations, and the tears in courtroom.

This entire thing may have some sympathy but have zero value in terms of evidence.

• If you are a man and using above laws against your wife, you will find it impossible.
• First of all no police station will file your complaint/FIR
• If they file they will not take any action for longer period of time.
• Everyone has that deep rooted misanthropy inside which stops them from pointing finger towards women.
• This misanthropy never allowed law makers to make any law on men or even discussion on it. There is a need of lot of research on men in India.

Fake feminism taking over the law

Fake feminism is using the laws as a tool to destroy a man. Feminist are doing certain things which are breaking our society.

Indian society and fake feminist thinks that only a man can commit a heinous crime.
Some points should be considered as per said by #feminists

• “all violence is generated by men”
• If a man says that he has being raped, then Indian society will laugh on him. Fake followers of feminist say that “a man can only commit such heinous crime of rape and a woman can’t rape any man”.
• That is why there are no laws for men which could protect the survivor of rape.

NGO’S AND MOVEMENT STARTED TO RAISE A VOICE FOR MEN

• Save Indian family- an NGO fighting for the rights of wronged men.
• Men’s right movement- movement started to fight against fake cases filed by women for claims of domestic violence, and demanding maintenance.
• Vastav- setup November 19, 2013

There are total 25 organizations which are fighting for gender equality.

Suicides committed by men who are victim of false cases against them
Men who become victim were false case commit suicide because of depression, mental health issues, societal thinking, and many more. #mentoo is also important as #metoo. An average of 93-94 cases is reported daily in our country.

Out of these, about 37-42% is mere fake allegations. Don’t make a man rapist, just because few electronic media depicts them as one. Just because of false cases a man is called a RAPIST. His life, career, reputation, rights and his feelings is all destroyed.

JUDGEMENTS:

It has been questioned by the Supreme Court with one judge describing its misuse as “legal terrorism”, warning that it was “intended to be used as a shield and not as an assassin’s weapon”, and the National Commission for Women expressing concerns over its misuse.

Raj talreja vs. kavita talreja

• In the present case, there were fake allegations made by the wife against the husband.
• The court held that this amounts to mental cruelty and can be as a ground for divorce.

Hiral P. Harsora and ors. Vs kusum narottamdas harsora  and ors

• Allow DV complaints on females in household by removing requirement of “adult male” from definition of respondent – Supreme Court judgment.

Narendra v K.Meena

• The Supreme Court of India had decided that the coercion or forcing the husband to leave his parents (who are dependent on his income) amounts to cruelty on part of the wife, therefore can be a strong ground for divorce under Hindu Law.

Listen to both sides

There are many who don’t get the real meaning of feminism, for some like Jasleen Kaur, feminism only means male bashing and she now stands guilty of false accusation.

• To refresh your memory, back in 2015, Jasleen Kaur, a student of Delhi’s St Stephens College, posted a photo of a man on her Facebook profile, accusing the man of passing obscene comments at her and threatening her as she pulled out her phone to click his photo.
• Sarvjeet Singh, now known as a harasser, thanks to a false case filed by a Delhi college student Jasleen Kaur, opened up about how difficult and embarrassing life has been since the incident that happened 15 months ago. Singh, supported since the beginning by MRA Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj, and HRA Kundan Srivastava, is now raising his voice on Kundan’s online platform that helps people raise their voice against victimization, injustice, immorality The Voice Raiser.

State vs. Ravi Kumar-
Ravi Kumar ended his life in 2018 due to false allegation on him made by his wifeMen are also victim, don’t play with men.

A boy ended his life on May 4 at gurugram

The boy was in 12th standard. Jumped from 11th floor on night of 4th may.
His father filed the complaint.
“My son has taken this step because a story on Instagram falsely accusing my son of sexual abuse while citing an incident that allegedly took place two years ago. The girl was aware that this post amounted to public shaming and would malign the social image of my son. I was also told that my son received an illegal and unlawful threat over his phone after the post went up”.

Conclusion

Women say that they get justice very late. They have to wait for many years to get justice. They have to face many procedures, rules and some time they may lose the case too.

The reason behind this is women itself. When the laws were given to them for their protection, then why they started to misusing it?
Section 489A states that; there should be an immediate arrest of man in demand of dowry case filed by a woman.

But due to many fake cases Supreme Court amended this section and now the police have to check the nine point list before arresting someone.

If these laws were used in a correct way by women then, the justice for innocent woman would never be pronounced late.

Due to fake women, innocent women are not getting justice on time. Because of fake cases against men by women, men are committing suicide.

“Not all men are dogs, some are perfect too.
Not all women are perfect, some are bitches too”

Let’s join hand together and fight against fake feminism and raise A VOICE FOR MEN.

All fake feminist do is differentiate and just be a psedo feminist. Girls think they really use a weapon in right way. But they end taking men lives away. Girls forget about all men respect and see them like an asset. Girls say all men’s are dog but when it comes to their father he is a SUPERHERO.

It is a bitter truth that our society does not seeks the fact first but spread rumors like a wildfire. You all must be aware that spreading misleading information about sensitive topics in which an innocent person may commit suicide is a serious crime.