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Indian husbands want protection from nagging wives
REUTERS20 November 2009,
Shrews, beware: a group of Indian husbands tired of being harassed by
their wives are demanding the local government create a male protection
society
to address their grievances.
The men, who said they had enough of their "nagging" wives, dressed up in
clothes traditionally worn by grooms and paraded through the northern city
of Lucknow this week to ask for a National Commission for Men.
"We are asking for equal rights. We want somebody to listen to the
grievances of men," said Subhash Dube, a medical doctor who described himself
as a
victimised husband.
The president of the All India Welfare Committee for Husbands, Indu
Pandey, said statistics showed abuse of a section of the penal code meant to
protect women against their husbands. "Demands to amend this law have been put
forward a lot of times. Therefore, we oppose this law," Pandey said.
Most of the misuse of the law has been related to dowry issues, with women
and their family members registering false claims that they have been
harassed by their husbands or their families about not paying enough, Pandey
said.
In India, dowries of money, jewelry or other assets are given by the
parents or the family of the bride to the groom.
This tradition was banned by law in 1961 but, even today, dowries are
common, and if the groom or his family is unhappy with them, they often
physically and emotionally abuse the wife.
Indian police receive hundreds of complaints of harassment related to
dowry every day from women, and are required to investigate deaths of women
within a few years of marriage as possible dowry deaths.
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