Save Family Foundation (SFF) calls for Peaceful Candle March

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Sub: Save Family Foundation (SFF) calls for Peaceful Candle March in the honor yet another Martyr of Marriage

Morning Shocker:

It was a usual Wednesday morning to which Bangalore woke up, only to be shaken by the brazen news of a young man of 36 committing suicide due to alleged torture by wife leaving behind his 1 year old son, 2 married brothers, an old mother and an unfortunate suicide note blaming his wife and mother-in-law for the extreme step of ending his life. Techie by Profession, Manoj Kumar worked for Oracle, while his wife Pramila worked for Bharat Electric Limited.

Manoj has had a tumultuous marriage. Constant torture by his wife which reached unbearable limits as she forced him to stay away from his family under threats of getting him jailed under a false 498A (dowry) case led Manoj to write “Sorry Son” on his T-Shirt before hanging his body from the ceiling fan on the unfortunate night of 8^th April 2013. This was after his wife abused his entire family, physically assaulted his brother with a helmet and tried to attack his old mother before she dared them that she would get them jailed in false dowry case if her demands are not met.

Manoj is not a solo victim but amongst lakhs of men who are abused daily in marriages and with this suicide, he enters the thousands of unfortunate men who die a silent death in an insensitive society that refuses to protect men.

Far Away in Dehradoon:

Manoj’s case is not very different from the case of Dr. Prashant Pandey of Dehradoon who committed suicide about two months ago as he was trapped in false cases and was not getting justice anywhere from the legal system. 55 days after he succumbed to the anti-male bias, his perpetrators roam free in the society while the Dehradoon DCP gives lip-service to his family.

Save Family Foundation (Regd.) comprises of families fighting against all laws that aggravate marital disputes; promote abuse of the elderly; violate basic human rights of men, women and children; precipitate family break-ups, facilitate the acquittal of the misuse of the law and promote a fatherless society. 

SFF recognizes such abuse of men is growing by the second and being exasperated, these men are committing suicides. These men are not dying; they are actually “Martyrs of Marriage”, as they lay down their lives at the altar of marriage trying to protect it from their vindictive, abusive, manipulative and greedy wives.

Having no law at their disposal to protect them and also fearing false cases being lodged against them under the various anti-male laws, these innocent abused male victims feel it’s the end of the road and take to the extreme step of ending their lives. SFF displays solidarity with the families of such victims and strongly condemns their deaths.

No Isolated Cases:

As per data provided by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), every year more than 62000 married men are committing suicides and the number is rising. In the last 15 years close to 200,000 married men have committed suicide directly due to domestic violence and torture from wife as per the analysis of NCRB, a unit of Union Home Ministry.

A mark of respect for the Martyrs of Marriage:

On the Saturday, 13^th April, 2013, four cities – Bangalore, Delhi, Lucknow and Kolkata – will rise for men as citizens will be participating in Peaceful Candle March praying for the departed souls of the Martyrs of Marriage demanding strict action against such women and their family members who abet the suicides of these martyrs.

The Address for Delhi Protest is in front of Delhi Police Headquarters (ITO).

Time: 6:00 – 7:30 PM, Date: 13 April 2013

SFF Demands:

1.       CrPC 41 Amendment should be strictly followed. Registration of FIR should be carefully done and Power of Arrest should be carefully exercised.

2.       Fair and Unbiased investigation of cases. Complainant’s claims should be diligently investigated and verified.

3.       Police should be sensitized towards issues of domestic violence faced by men. Proper Complaint redressal mechanism for Husbands harassed by the wife.

4.       The cases related to Suicide of Husband should be dealt with same sincerity as it is dealt with Wife’s Suicide.

5.       Suicide of Married Men is a serious issue (double the rate than married women) and the unfortunate incident of suicide of Sh. Manoj Kumar should be reminder to the system to improve its sensitivity towards Married Men suffering from domestic violence and threats of false cases by the wife.

PPT to stop the legal terrorism

Join SIF Team to Stop this legal terrorism of India and demand to replace the word Husband/wife to Spouse and Men/women to Person to related LAW or policy like all over world follow instead of making assumption that all Women born in Raja Harish Chandra family ( never lie) and all Men born in Criminal family.