Section 488 of the Criminal Procedure code and the rights of women – An Unruly horse

Section 488 of the Criminal Procedure code and the rights of women – An Unruly horse

"....This is an aspect of modern Indian Law.

The law is a kind of magical performance, and the magicians are supposed to get on with their display. The realities of the situation take the second place, whereas in fact the fortunes of the married couple most often lie at the mercy of selfish, narrow-minded and sometimes corrupt relatives, who care much less for the young people than for their own petty schemes for aggrandisement, for money and prestige.

Indian Law should not make young people pawns in their relatives’ games: and Indian judges should not dispose off matrimonial cases with their perjured and abominably comical “evidence” on the mere footing of statutory construction and technical trivialities.

Marriage, of all institutions of law, must bee treated seriously and objectively, and when the husband accuses the wife of adultery and when she accuses him of beating her (usually “mercilessly”) and attempting to poison her, the judge should be more astute to find out what really happened, and what evil part the relations played in all this, that simply to dish out a maintenance order against the husband for the wife’s relations to gobble up....."

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Section 488 of the Criminal Procedure code and the rights of women