Jul 29
Marital, Governance, Discrimination, Crime, Dowry, Family, Law, Delhi, Gujrat, Court, Reform
After the Domestic Violence Law was enacted, there was immense controversy about whether the law would help save the fate of innumerable women who face dowry claims, who face abuse in their households over whether they they give birth to male children vs. female children, and about their overall status in the household. Sadly, a lot of this abuse is also directed at them from other females in the household; or whether the law would end up being misused. No clear answers, but 2 separate stories. As an example, read this article:
It is a horror story of sorts. Two Vadodara women, who could not bear the macabre torture meted out to them by their husband for not bearing a son, have escaped to Ahmedabad to get their gut-wrenching tale heard and dealt with.
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Jul 29
In a far-reaching judgment that threatens the nature of banks to give out loans to people with a high risk, and then when a high number of such loans fail, use force to recover the money, the Supreme Court came out and said that all banks need to use the process of law to recover non-paid loans and cannot use musclemen or other force to recover the loans.
In the case of a lady who was unable to pay some months of her EMI for a Tata Indica car and who was negotiating with the bank, ABN Amro, the bank sent over some people who took possession of the car by force and sold the car. The lady then applied to a consumer court which awarded her damages.
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Jul 29
For some time now, people and organizations working to promote the use of RTI as an instrument to bring the babudom in check have been advocating the use of RTI by people in a more wide spread way. Frequent use of RTI for ferreting out information, along with penalizing officials for failure to carry out their duties is the only way to sensitize the bureaucracy towards their responsibilities.
The best way to do is to keep on bringing out success stories of the use of RTI, thus making sure that more and more people feel that they can also use this act if they are struck with something in government and they are getting the run-around or not getting satisfactory movement.
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