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Last 60 years more and more duplications of LAW made in the name of dowry and still we are crying the same not stopped and increasing , the basic questions is are our government or NCW really want to stop this so called Dowry System? If the Answer is “YES”, then the first step to be taken on: Section 8B on Dowry Prohibition Officers. · Any marriage involve with Dowry to be termed as illegal and void marriage and special task force of Dowry Prohibition officers to be appointed and start raid in marriage functions and all the Dowry articles to be taken in custody and the fine to be imposed on both the party and all the same should go to Government fund and the same will be used for the real empower of women , like their educations/jobs and make them self dependent , instead of treating the Husbands family as Free ATM machine. · Parents should give the equal rights to their boy and girls in their assets/property/business share, instead of treating the Girls as a burden and dispose off and then after marriage hide behind the word dowry.
We argue the Ministry , give us this power for one year , we will prove it beyond reasonable drought , what your NCW and their associated organizations not able to achieve , we will achieve at faster process and will eliminate the whole “Natanki” of so called Dowry system.
At last some step taken by Court towards the real step to stop the Dowry system in india .
Noida magistrate orders action against bride’s family for giving dowry and misusing Act to settle personal scores
NEW DELHI: A Noida court has ordered police to book a woman and her parents for giving dowry. The chief judicial magistrate (CJM) of Noida ordered the police to register an FIR against Noida-based call centre employee Natasha Juyal and her parents under section 3 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (DPA) for giving dowry. The CJM also ordered action against police officers who refused to register Natasha’s husband Namit Juyal’s complaint. Giving or taking dowry is a criminal offence under Section 3 of the DPA with imprisonment. This is a rare case where the section was evoked against a woman and her family. Namit’s lawyer Pradeep Nawani argued that Natasha had not only accepted to giving dowry, but also submitted a list of stridhan that was not as per the DPA. Even her claim of huge wedding expense did not match her father’s financial capacity. According to Nawani, Natasha filed a complaint of dowry harassment in Noida’s sector-20 police station last year, saying Namit was given Rs10 lakh as dowry in 2005. The Noida police arrested Namit and packed him off to Dasna jail in UP. After getting bail, Namit sought information under RTI from the Noida police, seeking to know on what basis he was arrested. He was horrified to hear that he was arrested on the basis of his wife’s mere written complaint and verbal statement with no records to back her allegations. He then asked police to register a complaint against his wife and family for giving dowry. On refusal by the police, he approached court to get a complaint registered against his wife and her parents. He also sought contempt of court action against the police for failing to comply with a supreme court order, stipulating that refusing to register police complaint by a husband in a dowry case is tantamount to the contempt of court.
Case boomerangs on dowry givers- Hindustan Times This may act as a reminder that "giving" dowry is also an offence. In perhaps the first of its kind case, a Noida court has ordered the registration of a criminal case against a woman, her parents and brother for allegedly giving dowry. The Noida chief judicial magistrate ordered the registration of an FIR against Sarita (name changed) and her family members after her husband Hari (name changed) filed a complaint alleging that they were trying to extort money by filing a dowry demand case against him. Hari is an engineer. Hari, who spent a week in jail after the allegation, said the police did not verify the financial background of his in-laws who claimed they had given Rs 12 lakh and a Maruti Alto as dowry to him. Hari also contended that, in any case, dowry-givers are considered accomplices under the Dowry Prohibition Act. Hari used the Right to Information (RTI) Act to challenge his wife's claim and the police's refusal to register a case on his complaint. The RTI reply showed that the police registered the case against Hari on the verbal complaint of Sarita and that the charges against him were never verified, his counsel Pradeep Nawari said. The Delhi High Court had recently said women or their parents who go ahead with marriage despite dowry demands from the bridegroom's side would have to be seen as "accomplices to the crime" and "will face prosecution" under the Dowry Prohibition Act.
By Praveen Kumar in New Delhi
PERHAPS in a first, a Noida court has ordered the police to register a case against a woman and her parents under the Dowry Prohibition Act.
The court also directed the police to initiate contempt proceedings against the investigating officer and the station house officer of Sector 20 police station.
The petitioner, Namit Joyal, submitted before the court that the two officers arrested him and his parents simply on the basis of the statement given by his wife Natasha and didn't investigate the
matter.
Natasha had filed a complaint against Namit, a software engineer, and his parents for demanding Rs 12 lakh as dowry. On the basis of her complaint, the police filed an FIR and arrested him and his
family members.
When Namit asked the officers on what grounds they had registered the FIR, they told him the statement of his wife was enough for his arrest.
Namit got married to Natasha in 2005. According to his petition, everything going fine, but his wife suddenly began creating troubles. She tried to persuade him to severe all ties with his parents.
She also started pestering him to buy a car and a flat.
" I bought a car and a flat. My wife began nagging me to register the flat in her name.
Her demands became more vexing day- by- day," he said.
In December 26, Natasha went to stay with her parents.
She and her family then allegedly began threatening to file a case against Namit if he did not pay her Rs 10 lakh.
When he refused, Natasha lodged a complaint accusing him of demanding dowry. The police promptly arrested him.
After getting bail two days later, Namit went to register an FIR against his wife and inlaws as the law says both the giver and taker of dowry are liable to be prosecuted. But the police allegedly
refused to register a case.
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