1.
Precautions and Prevention:
A. Before marriage: As
Dalai Lama has rightly said, “There should be at least 6 months of duration
between Engagement and Marriage”. Better before engagement too you should have
ample time to talk to each other for 5-10 times. In this period you two can know each
other better and plan everything about future.
Before marriage make a pre-nuptial agreement
(which people are v much opting for these days) saying
you haven’t demanded dowry and they haven’t given any dowry, they have given
gifts on their own for their girl.
Don’t take dowry or demand dowry. If gifts are
exchanged in marriage then write it down in papers and should be signed by both
the parties. Even after marriage you can do it. Better take photographs of all
the articles with you two standing behind it.
B. After Marriage: Keep every documents and evidence with yourself
(make copies of it). During battle in court you may need photographs, letters,
bank statements, video, articles etc..
Buy mobile and landline phones with recording
facility and also a 40hrs digital voice recorder (We hope you know how useful
these will be for you).
2.
What to do now (If
498A has been filed against you and your family):
(Easier said then done for atleast in first few days..) Think
positive. Don’t worry much. Plan
your moves step by step. If she has filed false case against you then you are
the winner. Thousands of false 498A cases are filed daily all over India and
everyone knows that. Take control of your family members (they are your strength
and vice-versa). Concentrate on
your job. Make more money (and invest wisely). Do meditation. Be focused. Always
remember you are going to win.
Keep a door open for negotiation. Talk to them
through your community members, family friends etc.. but never give in to their
outrageous demand. Main thing is to get bail asap for you and your family, there
after things will be in your hand and they will compromise. (Generally they
demand Rs 20 lacs and above before you get bail but in the long run through
court they can get hardly Rs 2k per month, which means less than Rs 30K per
year.)
Keep a v good lawyer (not necessary costly), which
can be young but v resourceful and gives you time. Lawyer should be such that he
has contacts within court and helps you in all condition. In the initial stages
talk to the police before they complete charge sheet, get all your family
member’s point of view written in the case diary.
There are lots of cases similar to yours, check them in net (links are given below) n be prepared always.
There are direction from US
and Canadian consulates that Misuse of dowry laws are rampant in India.
You are in the battlefront and want to win so remember these words:
“When
your strategy is deep and far-reaching,
you gain much so you can win even
before you fight.
When your strategy is shallow and near-sighted,
you lose
even before you do battle.
Much
strategy prevails over little strategy
so,
those with no strategy cannot help but be defeated.
So, it
is taught that victorious warriors win first then go to
war
While
defeated warriors first go to war and then seek to win. “
http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/
http://scj.indlaw.com/guest/databasesearch/caselaw/searchresults.asp
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/forums/dowry/articles/1961.html
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/forums/dowry/articles/offence.html
http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Law/2003/malimath-recommendations.htm
4. Cases and Judgments: Click Here
A: Newspaper
articles:
1. Indian Husbands From U.S. Fall Victim To Dowry-Immigration Fraud In India Cached-page
2. Some brides are ‘villains’, not victims: lawyers Cached-page
3. Majority of dowry cases are false: SP Cached-page
4. Check dowry law misuse by women: HC Cached-page
5. False dowry case ample ground for divorce: HC(Delhi)
6. Dowry Laws Nail Innocents : Estranged wives bring false complaints to beggar helpless spouses Cached-page
7. PERFUME TO POLICE - Give Pleasure Take Pain Cached-page
8. Laws Against Domestic Violence, Underused or Abused? Madhu Kishwar Cached-page
9. Man assaulted by wife, gets divorce
Cached-page
10. Disussion in RajyaSabha over misuse of IPC 498A
11. Dowry Act misuse quite common Cached-page
13. Parliament dicussion over abuse of IPC 498A and information about PHSS
14. Husband comes home to soft law
16. Women misusing anti-dowry law: HC
17. Battered husbands seek justice
18. Misuse of Dowry Law -Andhra HC Cached-page
19. Vimochana's Work with Victims of Domestic Violence
20. Singer's family booked for dowry demand
22. Harassed husbands to fast on Human Rights Day
23. Etah dowry death ‘victim’ comes alive
Cached-page
B:
Organizations/Individual:
B:
Organizations/Individual:
http://www.saveindianfamily.org
http://www.protectindianfamily.org/
http://www.geocities.com/gokul_p_r/Case/mysideofstory.htm
http://www.patnipeeditmanch.gq.nu/
http://misuseof498a.clawz.com/
http://www.geocities.com/illangoj/
http://www.vakilbabu.com/Forums/PersonalLaws/00000019.htm
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6708/sowryhar.html
http://www.lovelife.greatnow.com/di/law.htm
http://www.vakilbabu.com/Forums/PersonalLaws/00000019.htm
C: Bulletin
Board/Blogs:
http://indianhusbands.blogspot.com/
http://www.indiafamily.net/talk/messages/12482/12276.html
http://messages.evesindia.com/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000002.html
http://www.gender-indian.blogspot.com/
http://498a_misuse.rediffblogs.com/
http://dowry_victims.rediffblogs.com/
http://dontkillus.blogspot.com/
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Spread this to as many people as possible. Help
others who are facing similar problem, might be he can help you in return. If
you have good contacts with lawyers, police , journalists and/or politicians
then the whole society will get benefited. Write to President, PM, MPs, CM, difft.
Newspapers, Amnesty International, etc about this menace in our
society. To bring
changes in 498A and stop its misuse all of you kindly send emails to the Prime
Minister of India at http://pmindia.nic.in/write.htm
also send
emails to the President of India at and different
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after talking to many victims and feedback from lawyers. We are against dowry.(All exchange
of gifts during marriage should be declared in writing.) We Demand equal rights for men n
women in India (it includes equal share in family
property for women and a new IPC
498B for men). Whoever misuses a law should be
stringently penalized so that misuse of law is
prevented.
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