Good news.
Times of India.
NEW DELHI: Men who beat, threaten or yell at their wives or live-in girlfriends could be jailed and fined under the country’s first law aimed at curbing domestic violence.

The new law, which came into effect Thursday, also applies to men or their families who harass wives for larger dowries.

The measure aims to prevent cases in which a husband or his family kills a wife because her family did not give dowry.

The Domestic Violence Act defines abuse broadly, including verbal, physical, sexual, emotional and economic mistreatment. Violators face up to a year in prison, a fine of Rs 20,000 or both.

``We have been trying for long to protect women from domestic violence. In India, around 70 per cent of women are victims of these violent acts in one or another form,'' Renuka Choudhury, the Minister of State for women and child development, said.

The new law has provisions for abused women to complain directly to judges instead of police, who have been found to be biased.

Now, when a woman files a complaint the onus is on the man to prove that he did not abuse his wife. The law also ensures the woman's right to stay in the family home.

Women's rights activists and civic groups welcomed the new law. ``It's a victory for the women's movement in this country which has been fighting for years for laws that protect the basic rights of women,'' Ranjana Kumari, of the New Delhi-based Center for Social Research, said.

However, the law needs to be backed by adequate implementation funds to allow federal and state governments to pay for protection officers and provide legal aid and counseling, she noted.

``While this is a giant step forward, it will only be meaningful if government sets aside funds to provide shelter and protection to a woman against further abuse if she files a complaint,'' Kumari, said.

Describing the legislation as a ``tool in the hands of millions of women in India,'' she said women's rights groups would soon launch a campaign to educate women about the law.

According to a report published by the UN Population Fund, up to 70 per cent of married women aged 15-49 are victims of beating or coerced sex in the country.

This also should be in Nepal. Domestic Violence should be stopped, I'd say even in school.
I was spanked, beaten and threatened by elders all the time as long as I can remember, which I always hated and still hate. I will never do that to my future children or wife. And I hate when someone behaves in such a way in front of me these days, I protest, and tell them solve the problem by words not hand.

I don't care what you people think and say, but using Violence to one who is smaller and weaker then you does not make you big, and is a cowardly act.

घर भित्र बाग्, घर बहिर र गाँउमा स्यल

Poor you, gurudev.I am filled with sadness when I think of these injustice done by so called adutlts.

ya, I just got that news this morning on BBC. Now married women in india blackmail their husbands becausze the punishment is kinda high ( upto 1 year in jail + $450 fine)

Why is there no yardstick for the emotional hurt that a woman can cause to a man? Why is there no talk of jailing a woman for emotional pains that a woman can inflict? Should we as men fight for men's right now?

Bhusan,

Don't worry about it dude. Like my tuition teacher (back in nepal) used to say,
"यि आईमाईहरु 50 बर्ष अगाडी पनि woman liberation को भाषाण गर्थे, आज पनि woman liberationको भाषाण गर्दैछ्न्|
काग कराउदैछ, पिना सुक्दैछ|

I know that statement is so ignorant and conservative but what can I do? I can't go and change his way of thinking.

bhusan ..i know that occurs ..but not as much as violence against women and children.

i hope they do get the funds necessary to fund this.

Well laws can be applied in countries like India and Nepal..only when the people have the courage to say "I am a vicctim" and "He/she is the culprit" it'll work....

You can build courage for helpless women…if there's empowerment or equality between the sexxxes....

Equality will be there when there's respect for each other values or individualism..

For now more than these laws, in Nepal, women need to be empowered..get an education, a good equal paying job like men so they don't have to bow down for anything...and parents need to support them like their sons...

Women ..also needs to have a good number of friends of both sexxxes men and women..so she can "talk" and relate to other people...If a man knows his woman knows a lot of people that she can talk to and including his friends,..he will think twice before even opening his mouth and vice versa..even if not genuinely, he will be forced to respect women with peer or social pressure...

But the basic thing is if you really love each other. you’ll never do something stupid like that..please avoid violllllence at all cost..


Alright folks..so much for free consulting..hahhahhaha

Well laws can be applied in countries like India and Nepal..only when the people have the guts to say "I am a victim" and "He/she is the culprit" it'll work....

Guts can be there..when there's empowerment or equality between the sexxxes....

Equality will be there when there's respect for each other values or individualism..

For now more than these laws, in Nepal, women need to be empowered..get an education, a good equal paying job like men so they don't have to bow down for anything...and parents need to support them like their sons...

Women also need to have a good number of friends of both sexxxes men and women. So she can "talk" and relate to other people...If a man knows that his woman knows a lot of people that she can talk to and including his friends, he will think twice before even opening his mouth and vice versa…. even if not genuinely, he will be forced to respect women with peer or social pressure...

But the basic thing is if you really love each other. you’ll never do something stupid like that..please avoid violence at all cost..

(p.s. I just beat the shetttt out of my bf cuz he was soo drunk ...thankfully he was sooo drunk..that he never found out that it was me who made him black and blue all over..)

Alright folks..so much for free consulting..hahhahhaha

Hush - LOL!!

" Women also need to have a good number of friends of both sexxxes men and women. So she can "talk" and relate to other people...If a man knows that his woman knows a lot of people that she can talk to and including his friends, he will think twice before even opening his mouth and vice versa…. even if not genuinely, he will be forced to respect women with peer or social pressure... "

Couldn't agree more. And the reverse is true too if the guy want to continue to get respect from the girl.

Hey, and be easy on that poor guy will, you? :) Black and blue?!! OMG, you scare me ;)

he he...

Laws like these often have a flaw in them insofar as they generalize victims and perpetrators into groups - in this case women are the victims and it appears men the perpetrators and their rationale, I presume, is such classification is based on statistics, magnitude of the crime, history etc.

But that's not to say such laws are not necessary, because even though they may be imperfect, they lay the legal framework for people to stand up against injustice. My own take on laws like this, including those related to women, children, minorities is there is always the underlying assumption that good people who happen to belong to the perpetrating class are often already empowered politically, socially and economically to deal with kinds of injustices that these types of laws seek to address should such injustices be commited on them.

That said, if women empowerment comes to a point where it produces violent and abusive women on the same scale that we have violent and abusive men, which I hope never happens, then I am sure a law like this can be used as a precedent to pass another law that hands out punishment to women.

Also, if you are not a wife abuser, why worry about such a law?

Aii Aii cap'ain 'addock very good point indeed.

Also I want to point out that in Most Cases, voilence is the result of being weak. Women whehter it is the mother in law, sis in law, maids, aunts, gfs, in most cases keep their mouth shut..I have heard cases where mothers tell their little girls to keep their mouth shut even if they are raped by other family memebers (or outsiders) beacuse the society with demean them..and their family...oof what a load of crapppp...

It is primarily a woman's responisbility to fend for herself. OPEN UP. Do you want your life or the false social pride?? Think about it and move on..Worst comes worst you might have to live on your own ....which belive me is an awesome thing than to live in an environment where you treated worse than a dog..

In Nepal I see it possible.. cause nowadays i See all gals having the GUTTS to walk half naked around town..which they think they are cool..and if they have the same kind of GUTTS to live a proper life and have SELF RESPECT..everyhere they go...I don't think they wil ever come across being vicctims..

Alrighhhht..i think i can never stop on this topic ( speciallY when i am on the other side..ahahahah)

Cheeeeeeeeers
Hush

There is no option, but to create a law to punish the heinous acts. Cause no matter how much people chant about women liberalization or empowerment, there will always be a group of people who won't listen to what is right and what is wrong. law is created for exactly the people who cross the lines.

hush,

vry good point (O:

" In Nepal I see it possible.. cause nowadays i See all gals having the GUTTS to walk half naked around town..which they think they are cool..and if they have the same kind of GUTTS to live a proper life and have SELF RESPECT..everyhere they go...I don't think they wil ever come across being vicctims.."

i second that (O: