We The People: Anti-Dowry Law - The Two Sides

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court issued guidelines to curb the alleged misused of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, meant to deal with cases of dowry-related abuse. While men's rights activists claim the law is a tool for extorting husbands and their families, women's rights activists feel the dilution of 498A will be an attack on gender justice. On this episode of We The People, we ask: Is 498A really the most abused law in the country? With no bankable data on the level of abuse of the said law, did the Supreme Court jump the gun with the July ruling? Will the top court, in its upcoming review of the law, be able to find a middle ground between the warring groups?
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[@rheavadhera6024]

Married Men are not asked about anything....There must be Men's Commission in India.

[@AlexAgari]

Women can't take constructive criticism. Very sad

[@artificialinteligence7204]

I witnessed the misuse of 498A. If they say if it protects women from harassment?? Why do women ask huge money by filing 498A??? It's not harassment is it . Ask these questions to all those great women who talk loudly

[@ps-lover8380]

Well said

[@PrashantSingh-dh6ff]

It's good that now men are understanding how laws are biased and against them. I wish laws will be made gender neutral like in western countries.

[@Bhargava_P]

feminists will never agree that 498A is being misused.. what r u expecting out of this debate ?

[@shreyasimandal1679]

Well, I agree that it is being misused. I am a staunch feminist .

[@akashchawlani4329]

The problems of these kinds of debates is that often the anchors, who are actually supposed to mediate the debate fairly, are biased towards one side of the debate. Anchors should approach these issues from a neutral point of view. Unfortunately that doesn't happen at all.

[@somu87i]

This hair cut lady always support women

[@juliam1395]

It is NDTV, feminists channel

[@rheavadhera6024]

Vrinda, why women look for rich men, powerful men, NRI and a better family wherein she is living???

[@pheminismisshit4571]

bcuz she herself is a gold digger

[@bogdananedavnya2528]

@@pheminismisshit4571 Parents look for them, not girls themselves.

[@bogdananedavnya2528]

You are real misogynist and very biased. How do you know that all women are abusive? Do you kno all women in India?@Abhinav Rajput

[@bogdananedavnya2528]

@Abhinav Rajput Misogynist is person who claims women to be bad and men as angelic victims. I have already showed you statitics and videos about abused women. What else evidence do you want? You won't believe that women are abused unless you see female abuse in person? And what do you mean: "I do not know any female"?Just because you do not know victims personally, does not mena that they do not exist. I know more than 1000 cases.

[@bogdananedavnya2528]

@Abhinav Rajput Olease be careful, look above. I have already given you statistics about child marriage. I gave you an interwiew. And where is the statistics about beaten and abused husbands?

[@nileshmaurya7186]

I also pay 12 lakh for 498A for a marriage that exists for 2 days.

[@Harsh-vo2pm]

could have filed a case of extortion and criminal intimidation, you spineless person.

[@jmmhgptkpafs8472]

You are foolish... You should have filed counter case

[@revanthganesh3808]

Sorry for you brother.. Hope you have better life ahead!

[@hyperion39]

LOL, women panelist don't believe observations made by SC judges, but they are willing to believe arbitrary studies, researches which are deliberately created to support a point of view.

[@PrashantSingh-dh6ff]

Feminist panelists shamelessly laugh when they hear domestic voilance on men

[@juliam1395]

Govt. should passed a bill in Parliament to scrap 498A.

[@sahajshetty1844]

The definition of patriarchy is "a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.". Section 498A gives married women the power to get men and anyone related to them arrested on a mere allegation and the onus of proving their innocence is on the accused (men), meanwhile, men have no such non-bailable, non-compoundable section, something in the lines of a "False Dowry Allegation Law", with a mandatory defamatory fine and punishment associated with it, how can we even contemplate calling the society we live in today highly patriarchal, it may have been the truth when the section came into existence but female literacy statistics has had a 30% growth since then and many women have also entered the workforce. What baffles me is the very thought of making the offense bailable provokes a huge outcry from the Lawyer, probably because of the existence of a nexus of a small yet significant group of fraudulent complainants, lawyers, and investigating officers who make a quick buck out of these cases.

[@Traumatised311]

Laws exist to fight patriarchy Law gives women power to fight patriarchy Indian society is patriarchal

[@varuntomer1725]

@@Traumatised311 how

[@amitkumarsingh5822]

Jb Vrinda ka koi male relative phasega TB smjh me aayega isko I just want these laws to be gender neutral

[@artificialinteligence7204]

Killing some one for money n torturing is always crime and the person shud be punished irrespective of the gender.. That's when I feel there is justice not like If women do it's right if men do it's wrong ..

[@SUMANKUMARLAYEK]

These are surpanakha.... Don't compare them with Durga. If you give power to Surpanakha then these kind of extortion is commonly expected. Don't give respect to women just because they born as women. Let's their achievements decide if they are respectable or not. India need to understand from its ancient history that not all women's are respectable.

[@bonniebachan5196]

If two people can't live together get a divorce

[@rheavadhera6024]

yes, why harassment????

[@somu87i]

Rhea Vadhera Then why the girl not respecting her husband and his relations first If she has ego in mind, she should avoid marriage first right

[@sreeragraghunathan5573]

Since the government is already in your bedroom might as well install video and audio cams throughout your house. It will be your own big boss.

[@rewantgoenka886]

Notice how all women whether mra or feminist feel free to intrept the guy

[@manojmondal9427]

India need men commission in India🇮🇳 emedatly

[@kaustavkantimahapatra8900]

Vrinda should have patient to listen others also

[@rheavadhera6024]

Anchor is a lady, and she is biased.

[@ankitkaushal8011]

Sarah Jacob herself being an anchor justifies the kind of treatment being meted out to Men in day to day life.

[@rafiali6863]

The supreme Court has made observations after dealing with case after case taking into account factors such as evidence on record amongst so many other important factors, what report do you actually want if the honorable court says this in it's observations after actually having first hand knowledge in this regard? Claiming patriarchy is getting very old way of diverting the issues men face and the fact that women are equally capable of misuse of laws and power, don't play the innocent card just to further your interests, cause you'll will cause much more harm than good to women by playing the innocent card.

[@ashutoshjha9147]

One thing every boys family (should be made compulsory law by govt) should do is to ask the girl family to provide an affidavit including the list of gift or if any cash or jewellery they are giving to their daughter and to be husband and submit 2 copies, one in police station or family court of girls home place and other in boys home place and the same should be done by boys family as well this will also be helpful in mitigation of harm such cases

[@jmmhgptkpafs8472]

Women demanding well settled and rich husband is ok.. But dowry is bad...

[@bogdananedavnya2528]

Of course, there should be amendments to 498 A and investigation before a rrest, not instatnt one. But if the law will be abolished at all, what about real victims of violence?

[@akashchawlani4329]

With due respect, nobody is advocating complete abolishment of 498a. The discussion is whether it should be ammended to put the required checks and balances so that its misuse is stopped.

[@bharatnamej5176]

They can take divorce na?Men can be victim of abuse..

[@srikanthtupurani6316]

People who support this should be put in jail for sometime.

[@AnoopKumar-zi9bm]

Jawaharlal Nehru -> Hindu Marriage Act 1955 CrPC 125 Indira Gandhi -> 498a IPC 1983 Sonia Gandhi (~Renuka Chowdhury) -> Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 Priyanka Vadra Gandhi -> ????

[@syjutaj]

What a biased show

[@thesweetdevilguy]

why they let him talk .. for god sakes 8:37 the anchor really does not let any one talk i mean the man .. she has already decided I am sorry to say this she is totally biased....

[@RakeshKumar-fd3jq]

Parents on girl side most of the time gives domestic violence a name of Dowry harassment. In India, domestic harassment most often put blind blames on behaviour of daughter in laws but dowry harassment allegations similarly put blind blames on boys side family. Dowry harassment news tags makes the news Catchy too. Reality in most cases I find that the traditional conservative family in India is not able to accommodate an independent thinking educated girl in their family and we see domestic violence post marriage. Both side Parents not matured enough to handle this or ego of both side parents worsens the situation. There are torturing parents too on boys side who wish to keep their educated daughter in law as kaambai…while torturing parents on girl side too who plays all strategies to single out boy from their sister, brother or parents….we need to accept both practices prevailing today…..Parents shall never marry their daughter to a family who makes dowry demand……Girl shall never think that failed marriages is the end of life…a successful life exists too after coming out of a failed or toxic relationship and giving life 2nd chance…no need of suicide. There are some reality in our society today that girl parents try to lure boys parents with expensive gifts money vehicles to marry a high earning good looking boys. There are several low earning ..ordinary looking boys struggling for their marriage…In today’s society rich parents shows their financial strength to society by offering or taking too large cash and expensive articles as marriage gifts on girl and boy side respectively. Change in mind set of people and society required to tackle and handle this social problem and it will take time….but girl should never take such an extreme steps.

[@nileshmaurya7186]

These panelist women show same behaviour as a married women unsatisfied in the family of husband these base less talk.

[@zakzheree]

Patriarchy - जब कुछ ना सूझे तो ये बोल के भाग जाओ और लोगों को जाताओ के आप जीत गये ! Fools

[@artificialinteligence7204]

The moment we get up from bed wife asks let's go to jewellery shop big bazaar or shoppers stop.. It's not harassment for men??

[@Traumatised311]

Women having to moving in with in laws And putting up with abuse and mother in law and father in law Is so horrible

[@bonniebachan5196]

Why don't you done away with your dowry laws

[@shivanandsingh4409]

Deepika's best explanation👌

[@kaustavkantimahapatra8900]

Vrinda should understand the problem.

[@mohdsafee2617]

How could I took back my dowry

[@itisworking]

Patricharchy this patricharchy that

[@satyashodhaksanatan6490]

File case against harassment ,against beating why dowry ..is always a misused law..always false case

[@kapileshjeyaraman2421]

If a new person listens to this he/she can't understand which is is speaking for whom as both looks same. It is a design a perverted design. Only perverted mindset person gives false cases

[@kevinalexander6535]

In India law is bias... MEN and women aren't equal...

[@jmmhgptkpafs8472]

Men's commission is the need of hour

[@kaustavkantimahapatra8900]

Anchor also biased

[@sparshgupta2931]

No women in this comment section :)

[@sabashahin_]

Respect for Vrinda Grover ma'am

[@shivadityasinghmachhan]

asks questions and doesn't even let the other person finish.

[@somu87i]

This hair cut anchor Lady See her hair style She think if she maintains hair like male, she will become like a western Because of this kind of ladies, other ladies are doing the same and not following culture You can do Better with good Saree and homely girl as well

[@anshagrawal6289]

You are wrong

[@somu87i]

@@anshagrawal6289 We need Men commission

[@pawankoranga9332]

He is right , we have to stop respecting all women. Darwin 's law says survival of the fittest. So don't bother if anyone is male or female if some one is underperformer (obviously many females are due to biological conditioning, like animals are also underperformer) he/she will have to remain under powerful and beast.

[@wowser2153]

@@pawankoranga9332 why are you wearing western clothes and cut hair short , wear dhoti and grow hair like shri Ram or Lord shiva

[@wowser2153]

Somu irisappan , why are you wearing western clothes and cut hair short , wear dhoti and grow hair like shri Ram or Lord shiva , follow our culture

[@prachinegi1436]

Lol.....Poor men ,😙😅

[@sadanandpoojari5811]

Really

[@ankitaarora3618]

Prachi negi i think I have a father and brother and may be u will have son one day, so think before you comment.