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             Government and its biased laws

India regularly gets hauled over the coals for its shabby treatment of women but never gave a thought about women harassing a man?

In countries like India the role of gender is very  rigid. This very thing  give’s rise to stereotypes. Men who are facing or have faced domestic  violence  or any kind of violence  are not taken on a serious note. Often when they speak  about their situation no one listens to them, not even the police.

Even if their cases are registered ,they don’t get much importance because of  the Government and its Biased laws. According to Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code 1860, only a man can be held liable for cruelty to his wife. There is no subsection or any provisions given in the statute that will make a woman liable for domestic violence. 

Because of the Biased laws in the Indian Penal Statute the end result is always given in the favour of women. Women don’t  need to give any kind of evidence to prove their authenticity. They are always presumed to be true in most of the cases.

There are many reason because of  which cases go unreported. Most common being that men often feel that revealing the violence can cause unnecessary nuisance and embarrassment for them and they do not want to face the legal consequences because of the gender-biased or gender-specific laws in our Constitution.

  Earlier men were seen as bread earners of their family but nowadays both men and women are  working, raising and managing their homes with equal contribution of their incomes.

In this scenario it seems wise that government takes step to make new laws safeguarding men’s rights against Domestic violence.