The court has not done anything against the Hindu Marriage Act, in fact the husband was entitled to get one third of the wife's salary but he has been awarded 7th portion only. When we talk about Gender Equality, I suggest the husband should also be allowed to file suits under Hindu Adoption & Maintenence Act (Section 18) and also he must be given maintenance under section 125 and also under section 23(A). Not only this he must also ask for a proper residence and claim for his share in his wife's parental property. If he feels he has been harassed by his wife and in-laws, he must request the court to arrest all near and far relatives of wife until they prove themselves innocent.
There is no question of unscrupulus husbands taking advantage of such rulings, why would a husband blame his wife if he's not harassed. Well...Decision Makers should continue giving more and more judgements like this and CSR can conduct a study on USAIDs funds after few years whether ther's any misuse or not. I'm sure out of 100 cases only 3 or 4 cases will be of misuse as their report on misuse of IPC 498A states.
Weaker sex, fairer sex..... is the inequality on account of cast creed and religion is not sufficient that we are creating such differences between genders. This has to stop some day. If 60 people die in Delhi blast people say so many innocent women died in the blast..... does that mean men are criminals? why we differentiate on gender? Laws and empathy has to be beyond Genders... There used to be a time when brides were burnt for dowry and now husband and his family (Including old and ill parents, pragnent sisters and sister in laws) are put behind jail even for false dowry complaint even without given a chance to say anything. Why we have a extremist society. We have to save out families, our socities. We have remove this inequality and even playing women against women. How emotions of a bride can be different from that of a sister or a mother? after all all of them are wome. same way just because I am a man I have to be at point of disadvantage both by law and society. The concept of maintenance and alimony has to go out, both for husbands and wives.
I will say that not only the maintenance issue, but the other women's laws are extremely unfair and biased against men. Not to forget the inline provisions, designed to torture men, such as husband's conviction on only statement of wife in DV act and non-balaible S498a which many wives use in divorce proceedings only to get the husband arrested. According to law, whether man is at fault or not, he must pay his wife maintenance. Law views a man responsible for his family. But he does not have any rights in marriage according to law. When it comes to legal battle between husband and wife, even the most trivial acts of husband are criminalized, his property is seized and he is humiliated by government machinary in front of his family. Even the trivial issues can send him in jail, while the wife enjoys the show, at the expense of govt. Who says it is man's world?
At a point in time when Women have hit the streets screaming and demanding for Equality in all aspects and venue's of life on par with their male counterparts, I feel if you ladies really want equal rights.. then kindly accept it with equal responsibility and accountability as well. When you have the temperment to to go out and tell that you are as competent and aggressive as your male counterparts, then accept that as a lady if you can be dependent on your husband, it holds good for the vice versa as well. Lets be open minded on this aspect.
When the women-centric law is amended in a very preposterous way which are unconditionally biased favouring only women, that time nobody raises an eyebrow of anxiety and didn't believed that such biased laws could be prevalently misused. And when just one single court ruling has been made in favour of a deprived husband, everybody are becoming apprehensive about the scope of misusing the rule. Do these women organisation have any minutest clue of the repercussion of their neurotic and hysterical legal recommedations ? I guess not....I am glad that people are beginning to realise that men too are equally, if not more, victimised and exposed to gruesome domestic violence in the hands of wife and their so-called women's rights activists. It is undoubtedly certain that women's organisation will not keep mum on this ruling and fabricate ridiculous stories about misuse of such ruling. Lets be sure what is gender equality all about. One can't put all the unjustified burden on men and let women taste the nectar of freedom in the name of their so-called "Rights". Lets ask these women to prove their belief that men are immune to such injustice and domestic violence.
Why just Husbands? even wives are misusing the alimony law. and hence this law should be abolished or ammended because this encourages misuse from either spouse. mostly women.
sections like 498A are used by girl to get the unfathomable amount as alimony. This would stop once alimony practise is abolished in this modern world where girls are equally educated and capable of earning with more tax benefits.
There have been instances where the genuine girl irrespective of her financial status has divorced the guy without a single paisa. so, it proves that the conscience stops the honest person. It encourages the used only by crooks. The lawyers also have their share her when 1 time maintainance are negotiated in this racket.
An honest person will never accept a single penny what so ever from any one. Will always be self dependent and save self respect. Such laws encourage the lazy women to encash and eat without hardwork.
Incase of kids there has to be a joint contribution of money to their studies and savings till they start on their own. Why a burden on just one spouse?
Its got be win win. and should not encourgae parasites.
Today in this age when gender inequalities are disappearing fast and both the partners are earning then it is the responsibility of both the partners to support each other in the hour of crisis. Gone are the days when it was the responsibility of the male member of the family to run the house and support all the expenses. Today when the women are increasingly becoming more and more demanding in asking for their rights be it in the parliament, in terms of reservation or in jobs, then it is also important for them to support the male members in the financial space.
