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I read the article. If u read this, at first thought u would blame the boy's family for cruelty to the bride. But do u know that these days, female protection law 498A is a way of blackmailing by urban smart English speaking girls of India.
The matter is very simple. Bride will go to police station and file all the complains whose templates are there with advocates. She will give list of people who abused her. And police will put all the mentioned people in lockup.

I just wonder is India on the brink of destruction? If I did not know the significance of spiritual gift of India to the world, I could just pray to God for total and complete destruction of present republic of India.

The rapists, murderers who are doing crime on broad day light are roaming around because police is not able to prove their crime. How can police put whole family of a gentleman with no criminal records in lockup without proof? Also did u see that the girl was not staying with her husband for last seven months?

Is there any civilized country in world where a man and his wife, daughter is put in lockup by the verbal word of some human being, be she bride or daughter.

This female protection law 498A is a great tool for exploiting money from groom's family. A good number of urban girls these days maintain post marital relationship with their boy friends. Also they are abusive to family members and husband, feels herself completely free from any duty and commitment. And if her ego is not entertained, she is ready for break up of marriage. Here is 498A for her. She can claim money using 498A, get her desired divorce and make sure the alimony from her husband.


Just for ur information that I am also aware of the fact that in lot of cases girls face a very hostile and abusive environment in their father-in-law's house and they remain silent and just get oppressed.
But is this the law to help them? It looks Government does not even has common sense. Domestic violence is all over the world and all civilized countries are handling them very judiciously.

But see how Indian government wants to wash its hand?

Please also copy the entire article when it is from pioneer. the links do not work after one day.
thanks
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The irony of it
The Pioneer Edit Desk

On Friday, March 7, the day before International Women's day, newspapers in Delhi reported the arrest of a retired Assistant Director of the Intelligence Bureau and his wife on the complaint of their daughter-in-law. Also taken into custody were the latter's husband, a journalist, and his sister. The charges were harassment for dowry, foeticide, and the holding out of the threat to kill. According to the victim, she was regularly tortured for bringing inadequate dowry and, on one occasion, beaten so savagely in the abdomen that she had a miscarriage.




Not only that, her husband had threatened to kill her and have her brother framed as a terrorist and despatched in an encounter. The train of sordid events deserves more than passing attention not only because of its outrageous nature but also because it reflects the deep irony that characterises the position of women in India. They have, no doubt, forged ahead in almost all fields of life from politics, administration and the professions to commerce and industry. If Indira Gandhi exercised at the national level the kind of power that perhaps no one else-to say nothing of any woman-did in Independent India, Ms Mayawati and Ms Jayalalithaa have shown that they are second to none in giving it as hard as they receive in the rough and tumble of politics, and Ms Sheila Dik**** that women can not only administer well but also introduce new concepts like Bhagidari in governance. Equally, Indian women have been judges of the Supreme Court, leading legal practitioners, senior bureaucrats, police officers, doctors, educationists, researchers, scientists, social and environmental activists, writers, playwrights, musicians and film-makers. Indeed, one cannot think of any walk of life, whether at home or abroad, as in the case of Kalpana Chawla, in which they have not left their imprint. Simultaneously, however, millions of women have no control over their destiny, remain sunk in ignorance and suffer not only the denial of the opportunity to develop their potential but the worst kind of violence and oppression. Even successful women who have broken through the glass ceiling in their respective callings, have to contend with discrimination and sexual harassment.



The shame is that people like journalists, academics and serving or retired police and military personnel, who ought to be at the forefront of efforts to combat evils like dowry, domestic violence, discrimination, sexual harassment and worse, are often the worst culprits. Remarkably, the same day the newspapers reported the arrest of the retired IB official and his journalist son, they also carried the news of a retired Lieutenant-Colonel being apprehended on the charge of raping a 17-year-old pregnant girl. While circumstances peculiar to each case certainly contribute, such crimes are also due to the insensitivity of large sections to women's right to equal opportunity, respect and dignity as individuals and the need for special measures to enable them to overcome the handicaps arising from centuries of suppression and distorted perception. A great deal of the blame here must go to the entertainment media, particularly certain kinds of movies and television serials which, along with mindless advertisements, project women either as sex objects or creatures mired in bovine domesticity. International Women's day should mark the beginning of a public campaign against these.