Men of India Being Fed to Dogs

Today, while consuming my daily dose of legal news at Livelaw.in, I came across a story which filled me with cocktail of emotions - amusement, anger, anxiety, disgust, fear, horror, relief , emptiness - some of the few I am able to articulate but many more. Story was about the bail application, approved by Hon’ble Supreme Court (SC), of an Octogenarian (84 years old man) who was booked under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for raping a minor, allegedly. He could only get the reprieve from top court once DNA report clearly indicated that he has not fathered the child born on 5th July 2020 to the complainant. All courts below Hon’ble SC rejected his bail application despite his pleadings that he is unable to perform sexual activities at such an old age. Further Hon’ble High Court of Calcutta while rejecting his bail application recorded submission of Public Prosecutor that medical report of Octogenarian supports contention of the allegations essentially meaning he is possibly a fertile man adding to his troubles. In short, he could get bail (no other way owing to the nature of allegations) once the child was born and DNA test could be performed, delaying his bail which resulted into several months of his incarceration or may be more. Without going into details of case, which blogger is not privy to anyway, Hon’ble SC enlarged Octogenarian on bail, rightly so, as one of the major allegations of complainant was found false. Question one needs to ask if complainant can make false allegation about the paternity of child what else she can lie about. May be almost about anything. As per submission of Octogenarian to Hon’ble SC it is out of the landlord-tenant dispute a false case has been filed. This seems to be a classic example of how at the drop of a hat laws pertaining to rape and POCSO Act, not limited to, are being misused to settle civil disputes. Men of India are being fed to dogs. Their hard-earned respect and livelihood are shredded into pieces by women sozzled in the power of gender-biased laws. Above all whole eco-system is spinning round the clock in giving impetus to such false allegations by women. I hope now that Octogenarian has got the bail order from none other than Supreme Court of India he would be able to cope up with the trauma he had to endure and  may continue to live peacefully, if allowed, in his remaining years in this world .

 As a society we need to introspect where are we headed. It is an open secret that false rape cases by disgruntled live-in partners/girlfriends is norm now and rape, a heinous crime, is being trivialized day after day. Newspapers are filled with stories of gangs of girls/women working to extort money from men or implicate them in false rape cases state after state. Despite knowing the reality hands of cops are tied to register FIR in rape case as law is such. This gives an indication that all three pillars of democracy viz. the executive, the legislature and the judiciary are telling men of this country if they indulge in consensual sex outside marriage or before marriage, they would pay the price in terms of their lives, livelihood and respect. And it is quite possible last bastion, proviso in Indian Penal Code (IPC) 375, saving husbands (read men) from marital rape may fall soon causing all hell to break loose. If such brazen misuse of gender-biased laws continues the day is not that far when parents would stop praying to be blessed with sons and possibly repressive gender under the burden of gender-biased laws would declare war on opposite sex. Laws such as “Rape Law” were made so strict with presumption that no woman would lie about being sexually assaulted. It is now clear in the light of umpteen number of false rape cases not just presumption was wrong but there was no basis of such presumption except that in country like ours a woman has always been treated as goddess by society. But it seems women of country want society to treat them as just human beings and human being as such is very complex species capable of things which are unimaginable. 

Before signing off this blogger firmly believes first step in making women mortal is to have gender-neutral laws and severely punishing those involved in filing false cases.

References:

1. Link to the story covering bail application of Octogenarian: https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/sc-grants-bail-to-84-year-old-man-after-dna-reports-161900 

2. Rape Law: https://indiankanoon.org/doc/623254/

3. Link to false rape story (one such) : https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/bombay-high-court-fines-woman-rs-25-000-for-false-rape-complaint-report-2285822 

4. Order of Hon'ble High Court of Calcutta in the case of Octogenarian: 

5. Order of Hon'ble SC granting bail to Octogenarian:

MRA Tikloo

www.menwelfare.in

www.saveindianfamily.in

Schadenfreude

"Schadenfreude - pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune" would aptly describe what I felt as soon as I heard the news of current Chief Justice Of India (CJI) being a new victim of #MeToo. But when news started to sink in I realized what I felt was much more complex. 

It is well known #MeToo wrecked havoc in Indian Society. And when I thought it probably has lived its life, it is trying to rear its ugly head again. Several public figures were victims (apt word) of #MeToo. For example on whims and fancies of a female who wanted to settle old score an FIR U/S 376 (Rape) was lodged against a prominent personality in Bollywood. A cabinet minister, who is now fighting a battle in court to restore his dignity and respect in society, had to resign. There was no one in the System to listen to men who were victims of #MeToo. These men were asked to go through the judicial process and prove themselves innocent. Hence, would it not be apt now for CJI to go through the same judicial process to prove his innocence? But wait!!! he is CJI and should not he be like Caesar’s wife beyond any doubt? Tomorrow, as things stand even the First Citizen Of India can be a victim of #MeToo and nothing much can be done. Above, all I can imagine the feminist lobby screaming through its lungs to demand resignation and what not. After all #MeToo feeds itself on naming and shaming and taking away the precious jewel of a man “His Respect” and guess what there is no punishment if accuser is found to be having ulterior motive. 

My mind is in state of dichotomy. One part of it wants CJI should suffer same fate as millions of other innocent men facing false allegations. Same judiciary he is part of rarely stood for men victims of false allegations year after year. “Prima Facie” is often used in court rooms to make a man go through a trial, despite there is not a shred of evidence against  him, to defend his dignity and respect against the words of disgruntled wives/GFs/female co-workers. However, other part of it wants to support CJI without any second thought. As an MRA my “Dharma” is to trust a man and never judge him.  

Hence, I am going to shout out loud that I am in full support of CJI and firmly believe that this is a larger conspiracy to malign an imporant pillar of democracy - Judiciary.

But through this blog I would also want judiciary to introspect. As a society we are at cross road and before things get more worse and we head for a gender war, it is very important judiciary should take a lead and in conjunction with legislature and bureaucracy try to restore the balance in society.

First step in this regard would be to make all gender biased laws gender neutral. Alleged crimes which pushed formation of Gender Biased laws should have been treated like other crimes and there were enough measures available to deal with them. Gender Biased laws never achieved the balance what legislature intended them to achieve as it was imaginary and formation of laws was based on manufactured data. Once laws were formed there was no mechanism put in place to capture the effectiveness. In fact, even the manufactured data based on which laws were formed disappeared from public domain. However, one thing is for sure Gender Biased laws have certainly created a great divide between two important genders of society.

Second step would be that any piece of legislature must have a misuse clause to act as deterrent for false cases. Misuse clause should be so strong that a complainant must think 100 times before making a complaint. 

Third and final step would be to accept that men have emotions too, they can cry too, they can suffer from depression too because of turmoil in their matrimonial lives, they can be single parent too and much more. Once we accept the issues of men formation of Men's Commission would make sense. 

Post-Script: I am certain CJI would come out as a winner soon and that would be a dawn of new beginning. 

Tikloo (MRA)

www.menwelfare.in

www.saveindianfamily.in