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Two-month-old accused in DOWRY harassment cas

- by Prassoon Suryadas 23 Jun 2009
This story has been read 438 times.
Category: News
Topic: What should India expect from a young Parliament?

A perfect example of Indian Legal System and how stupid our law makers are! I wont be surprised if another case of dowry harassment come with 500 relatives of husband!!!

here is the news
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Mumbai: In diapers, lying in her mother's lap and yet to sprout teeth, but Zoya is an accused in a dowry harassment case. The two-month-old baby was named along with seven adults by her stepmother in a complaint letter to the police. What is worse is that the police has included the child's name in the FIR.

Zoya - who should be playing in crib - had to spend several hours in a police station with her mother, foregoing food and sleep and came very close to being arrested.

Her mother, Reshma Shamsuddin Khan, pleaded with the police. "Sahab ye toh choti bacchi hai. Iska aapne kaise complaint le liye. Toh woh bole nai kuch problem nahin hai, hota hai saat-aath saal ke bachi ka bhi hamare paas case hai. Tab humney socha ke court jayenge. (I told them that she is a baby and how can you write her name in the FIR. The policemen said that it was no big deal and that they had other cases against young children too. That's when we decided to go to court.")

Not surprisingly, Zoya is the youngest bail applicant before the Mumbai Sessions Court. She was granted anticipatory bail on Sunday and is now safely in her mother's care.

The defense lawyer, Ashok Bhole said, "My client called me and told me everything. I saw that the child's name was also in the complaint, so I quickly filed a bail application in the sessions court."

Meanwhile, legal experts are stunned to say the least.

Advocate Usha Makasare says, "It is crazy. Unheard of. We will have to see under what circumstances the court has given this order."

In all this, one wonders what prompted the complainant to drag the child into the mess and worse still, was it right for the police to have even called the child to the police station? The officer who is to blame for this bizarre incident has now been suspended and the child's name removed from the FIR.

(With inputs from Sholeen Damarwala in Mumbai)

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Hutch - Pune on 6/30/2009 3:18:08 PM
Prassoon Suryadas - International community DOES NOT have the TIME to ‘laugh at us’, you are grossly overrating YOUR delusions. Your only agenda is to make indian laws lenient towards men who abuse women, so that you can safely and freely abuse women without fear of consequences.
 
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Ravi - Delhi on 6/25/2009 3:51:13 PM
There should be large scale demonstrations to highlight the blunders/foolhardy by law enforcing agencies.All those who are involved in filing FIR should be condemned.
 
Prassoon Suryadas - Salt lake city on 6/24/2009 6:22:39 AM
When it comes to the kid, everyone understand the misuse of law, but several lakhs of age old parents and husbands are running around the courts to prove their innocence just because of a baseless complaint of a stupid wife. This needs to be changed real quick. International community is laughing at us but our freaking lame govt seems so damn scared of the feminazis that they dont want to repeal these kinda lunatic laws. I wonder how stupid our judges are; they shouldnt have accepted the charge instead of giving bail.. so goddamn insane judges..
 
Parthasarathy - Chennai on 6/23/2009 8:36:43 PM
Misandry : Hatred of males. This article ( the prime subject of the story ), is a classic example, though we are so used to seeing misandry all around us, that we hardly 'see' it! It is far different from FEMINISM, though it is usually confused with feminism. While there are areas where feminism is useful - since many females feel they need help, since society is biased against their gender - it has been completely replaced in todays age, by Misandry, going by the name of feminism. WAKE UP MALES! SPEAK UP!
 


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