Domestic Violence in India
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In 1978 in India there was a rise in the reported cases of domestic violence and murder, some linked to dowry demands (Kishwar, 2003, 111). In 1979 there was a demonstration to protest police collaboration with the murderer's family by registering the death of a newly-wed woman as suicide. The protest received widespread media attention and many organizations who joined the protest were flooded with cases of married women seeking redress against violent and abusive husbands, and of parents whose daughters had been murdered by their in-laws. Even so, it was difficult for the various women's organizations to get any cooperation from the police or the courts. In cases where women had been murdered, police destroyed evidence and passed off the cases as suicides or accidents as a result of bribery. In the courts, it was difficult for the victims of abuse and torture to prove "beyond a doubt" that they were victims. As a result of vigorous campaigning, and lobbying by women's organizations, significant changes were made in the Indian Penal Code, the Indian Evidence Act, and the Dowry Prohibition Act to try and protect wives from marital violence, abuse, and dowry extortion (Kishwar, 2003, 112). However, these laws were not implemented as had been hoped. The police continued to accept bribes from the wrongdoers, leaving the women still without protection. A survey of women who had been murdered or committed suicide in the Bangalore district showed that police and other la
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human rights groups who are protesting the move. Amnesty International says that the Committee has not examined statistically and sociologically the problem of the social impact of this law, and it does not seem to take seriously the problem of domestic violence, says the director of the Delhi-based Center for Feminist Legal Research. Since India is a signatory to the Convention on Elimination of All Kinds of Discrimination Against Women, this move questions India's international commitment to upholding human rights.
Seema Panday is a teacher with a post-graduate degree, but that did not stop her from suffering physical abuse from her husband and mother-in-law (Radha, 2002). After her husband broke a bottle over her, embedding shards of glass in her back and shoulder, and then poured kerosene over her in an attempt to burn her, she finally sought shelter and help, despite the pleas of her family to return to her husband "for the sake of family honor." Sakhi Kendra was started in 1982 by Neelam Chaturvedi, the daughter of a leading trade union activist in Kampur, and is the first shelter for women in distress run by a non-governmental organization. It is here that Seema Panday turned for help, and now works full-time. The
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