Are All Laws in India Gender-Biased? No, There Are Some Exceptions!

DELHI, India - Feb. 22, 2022 - PRLog -- Gender-biased Laws :The Indian marriage system is a HUGE gamble for men. There is nothing you can do to 'save yourself' from false cases being filed against you. You can only attempt to prove your innocence in court. Apparently, Indian lawmakers probably believed that ALL Indian men are evil monsters while all Indian women are angels from heaven. So, they did not provide ANY legal protection for men under the Indian Penal Code. No laws in India are gender-neutral. However, there are some surprising incidents that took place in these years, which have done Men Ki Baat.

Here are some instances where court made an attempt to neutralize gender-biased laws to some extent.

Does IPC Section 498A give way too much power to women?

A few years back, the apex court pronounced its verdict in favour of men's rights activists.  In 2017, Men Rights Activists moved to the Supreme Court seeking relief from domestic violence against men. The day went lucky for them as the court said that 'the men were victims of domestic violence'.

Well, the Supreme Court did not make the law gender-neutral but cited that women were filing a bogus case against their husbands in domestic violence cases. Reading the judgment, the bench said, "most domestic violence cases that were reported were done out of danger over trivial issues. Women did not visualize the consequences and implications of dragging their husbands to a court."

However, the judgment left the women group unhappy. As per these women groups, the court was concerned more to preserve marriages and extended families. Later, more than 16 women groups appeared before the chief justice of India to reverse the Supreme Court decision.

Society often believes that a man being assaulted by a woman is "less manly," and mocked their situation. This restrains them from coming out and talking about their problems.

In 1988, Ram Prakash Chugh started the men's rights movement in India. He drew the nation's attention to Section 498A of the IPC, which is dowry law. The law protects women's interests when it comes to violence, sexual harassment, abuse, and other cases where the bride's side fails to pay the dowry.

In 2014, the Supreme Court of India relaxed the provisions that empowered police to make an arrest against a man who is a regular offender of dowry law.

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