Does your wife torture you? Contact Man Cell
By: Sanjeev Verma
Has your better half become the bitter half of your life? Are you a tortured husband, falsely booked into a dowry case or under domestic violence act and there is no one to pay heed to your side of the story?
In the recent years, such incidents have taken a steep rise in numbers, in every social society all over India, where Himachal Pradesh is not an exception. Many cases have been reported in different parts of Himachal also, where women have misused the dowry law, which is actually meant for their protection. But it’s an irony that the law takes into cognizance, prima facie, violence against women only, as they have got the tag of being the weaker section of the society. But what about men?
Man Cell or Patni Atyaachar Virodhi Morcha (PAVM) is an organisation working for the cause of harassed husbands. Man Cell, which was established in 1982 by R P Chugh, a Supreme Court advocate and president of Man Cell, has branches at many places all over the country. He himself has been a victim of women since his childhood and campaigns against the anti dowry legislations, specially section 498-A of IPC and the Domestic Violence Act, as he feels that these laws are biased and violate basic human right of equality before law. Man Cell believes that there is no use of making new laws as existing laws are sufficient. He feels, there is a need to amend such existing laws as they only speak of the harassment of women and not of men.
According to Chugh, Man Cell receives an average of ten calls on daily basis from across the country, where the harassed husbands can be heard literally crying and struggling with mental agony. Man Cell’s main motive is to bring to the notice of the government that how women are misusing Section 498-A of the IPC and Domestic Violence Act and how the husbands and their relatives are being implicated and blackmailed in false cases, in India, by their mischievous wives and daughter-in-laws.
Our society is conditioned to believe that a husband can never be harassed by his wife. People still find it uncomfortable to accept that a woman can harass a man. Chugh explains that the list of his clients includes officers from IAS, IPS, judiciary, businessmen and people from corporate sectors, who feel embarrassed because of their social status, as to what the people would say if they come to know that they are being harassed by their wives. Chugh says that there are several organisations working for women but there is hardly any working for men.
Chugh further adds that there are many cases where the wives are sufferers, so the Man Cell only fights genuine cases and first of all it tries to bring both parties together and sort out the problems amicably. There are women, who most of the times file cases under somebody’s influence or are misled by their parents. So every step is taken to convince them to get back on the track and compromise, as going to overburdened courts could be futile. It is not only the couple who suffer, but parents and children too have to suffer along, he adds.
Contact Man Cell:
91-9810170681, 91-9868142608
E-mail : mancell@rediffmail.com
Address: Man Cell, BH-712-A, Shalimar Bagh, Delhi – 110 088
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This is a problem facing husbands who
are rich or poor, educated or not.
As the modern society
is getting more into materialism,
and the competition of keeping up
with the status symbol par with the
neighbour and society as a whole;
women will be more agressive in their
role of nagging. It takes special
grace from God to keep a happy and
united married life at this age.
Wife abuse is legally punishable, but
the husband abuse if not yet addressed
as a problem. When the couple are
equally educated from the same family
background of social status and wealth, there will be a tug of war.
Like the rank order in the army;
in families, there must be an order
in rank like husband-wife-children,
and love and forgive each other unselfishly, then that family
can be a heaven on earth.
There’s already a wider network…www.498A.org and http://www.savetheindianfamily.com fm Mumbai…check it out!
Its quite sad to read about something so abnormal from a man’s part.I think right education, pre marital councelling and compatibility is what required in the present scenario. Better understanding and mutual faith may bridge up the gap in the beautiful relationship of husband and wife.
These days wifes have become more demanding than ever before.love has vanished & materialsm has taken place.more desire,more options even in relations,& no immunity to men ,one false police complain & u are behind bars with ur family & in some cases unbailable warrent. All these have made the condition of men very bad & result is more & more broken relations
Blaming the genders alone will not be of any use. Be it man or woman the need of the hour is to be more sensitive and objective in our approach.
More than a man cell or women cell, their is a need to revamp the legal system. It’s the system which causes more harrasment than a husband or wife does to a family. Women often lodge a complaint and people are behind bars without any investigation.
Laws are and should be legislated to save victims and punish culprits not men or women. The one, who is harrassing other person, should be punished by law without considering the gender of the culprit.
These cells pronounce the failure of our legal and security system. If our laws had been effective and security system alert there would have been no ground for these cells.
I don’t think the men cell or women cell are that much effective as are considered by some people.
There is a need to spread awareness among all sections of the society.
Harassed husbands from all over the country to meet in Shimla on 15 August 2009 to raise their issues. Demands include formations of separate Men’s Welfare Ministry on the lines of Women and Child Welfare Ministry.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=LifeStyleSectionPage&id=3cb3753b-87b7-48a2-acb3-3f8cbec4ab37&Headline=Harassed-hubbies-club-to-seek-freedom
You are doing a great service to society in trying to keep families and children together even in cases of false complaints by women and vested greedy parties.
CrPC amendment of 2009 has not been brought into force. If that was enforced, lot of police brutality in form of unneeded arrests will be avoided.
please let me know if you have any contact person in bangalore…, I want to discuss my family issues
Thank God ! at last there is some organization to listen to the vast majority of harassed husbands . Situation becomes more alarming when these same harassed husbands are brought to the receiving end, facing court trial and peshi before the Mahila Ayog on the basis of false complaints.