Source: http://www.mid-day.com/news/2009/jul/170709-Techies-Harrassed-Husbands-40-percent-Save-India-Family-Foundation-Bangalore.htm
About 40 per cent of harassed husbands in the city are techies, study finds
Techies earning fat salaries are the most harassed among Bangalore husbands.
A study carried out by Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), a city based NGO, reveals that software professionals make up about 40 per cent of the total number of harassed husbands.
Huge pay packets make techies soft targets, say members of the foundation who carried out the study over 15 months.
"The study is shocking," said Panduranga Katti, president of SIFF. "Software professionals getting huge benefits from companies is a known fact and wives are misusing this every day. In most cases, wives demand money and threaten to complain to the police."
The share
SIFF, which works to empower harassed husbands through its website and branches across the nation, studied about 1,100 cases in Bangalore from January 2008 to April 2009.
After the techies, came men with private businesses. They constituted 11.7 per cent of the cases. Husbands from administration and the military made up about 10 per cent of the cases.
Legal help for hassled hubbies
Men in government service, heavy engineering and management, and the finance sector made up 7.8, 7 and 6.3 per cent of the total cases respectively.
The study included professionals, who approached the NGO through the internet. While 73 per cent of the cases approached SIFF through its website http://www.indianfamily.org/, the rest approached them through friends.
Help
SIFF plans to empower harassed husbands by providing them with legal support based on court judgments.
"Besides legal help, we will empower husbands through sessions of basic strategies and tactics. This will be done step by step," said Virag Dhulia, member, SIFF.
What women want
This is how wives harass husbands, according to the study:
>>Demanding money and threatening to file police complaints
>>Wanting parents to be sent away from the house
>>Forcing the husband to buy property
>>Adultery
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Delhi High Court wants law to change with time and shed gender bias
Harish V. Nair (for Hindustan Times) - June 5, 2007
Should women be punished for adultery?
THE DELHI High Court has reopened the old debate on whether women should also be punished for adultery.
At present a married woman involved in an illicit relationship cannot be prosecuted by her husband for adultery since the law sees her as 'victim'. Her lover can, and is seen as the sole perpetrator of the crime. The maximum punishment for adultery is five years imprisonment.
While quashing a case of adultery for lack of evidence, Justice A.K. Sikri on Monday observed that society had changed a great deal since Lord Macaulay drafted his penal code for the country in 1837 - which became the basis of the Indian Penal Code. The strict segregation of the sexes at the time, including the purdah system, made voluntary adultery for women almost impossible.
It was the fourth report of the Law Commission that clearly said adultery was a crime committed only by men. Women were excluded because they were, "already living in humiliating and oppressive conditions within the family".
That women should also be charged in adultery cases was first recommended by the 42nd report of the Law Commission. The report of the Justice V.S. Malimath committee on criminal law reform in 2003
said the same.
Another view has been expressed by the National Commission for Women (NCW) and the Madhav Menon panel's draft National Policy on Criminal Justice. Both have said that adultery should not be treated as a crime at all, and Section 497 of the IPC, which relates to it, should be scrapped.
"We have yet to see how Parliament reacts to the recommendations and whether Section 497 is retained and offending women are also included thereby enlarging the scope of this section or the legislature goes to the other extreme by abrogating the section altogether," said Justice Sikri.
Justice Malimath told HT: "There is no reason for not meting out similar treatment to the wife who has sexual intercourse with anybody other than the husband."
But NCW Chairperson Girija Vyas was firmly against punishing women for adultery. "The woman is the victim all the time," she said. "During court cases, husbands often level false charges against wives. This is mostly seen when the question of granting maintenance to the wife arises following a divorce."
harish.nair@hindustantimes.com
Should women be punished for adultery?
THE DELHI High Court has reopened the old debate on whether women should also be punished for adultery.
At present a married woman involved in an illicit relationship cannot be prosecuted by her husband for adultery since the law sees her as 'victim'. Her lover can, and is seen as the sole perpetrator of the crime. The maximum punishment for adultery is five years imprisonment.
While quashing a case of adultery for lack of evidence, Justice A.K. Sikri on Monday observed that society had changed a great deal since Lord Macaulay drafted his penal code for the country in 1837 - which became the basis of the Indian Penal Code. The strict segregation of the sexes at the time, including the purdah system, made voluntary adultery for women almost impossible.
It was the fourth report of the Law Commission that clearly said adultery was a crime committed only by men. Women were excluded because they were, "already living in humiliating and oppressive conditions within the family".
That women should also be charged in adultery cases was first recommended by the 42nd report of the Law Commission. The report of the Justice V.S. Malimath committee on criminal law reform in 2003
said the same.
Another view has been expressed by the National Commission for Women (NCW) and the Madhav Menon panel's draft National Policy on Criminal Justice. Both have said that adultery should not be treated as a crime at all, and Section 497 of the IPC, which relates to it, should be scrapped.
"We have yet to see how Parliament reacts to the recommendations and whether Section 497 is retained and offending women are also included thereby enlarging the scope of this section or the legislature goes to the other extreme by abrogating the section altogether," said Justice Sikri.
Justice Malimath told HT: "There is no reason for not meting out similar treatment to the wife who has sexual intercourse with anybody other than the husband."
But NCW Chairperson Girija Vyas was firmly against punishing women for adultery. "The woman is the victim all the time," she said. "During court cases, husbands often level false charges against wives. This is mostly seen when the question of granting maintenance to the wife arises following a divorce."
harish.nair@hindustantimes.com
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