Daily we hear about the cases of violence against women. Cases of Dowry, sexual abuse, physical abuse are very common nowadays. In Gonda district in Uttar Pradesh, men are the one and not women who are facing such issues and cruelty from their wives .“We are receiving about ten complaints every month from married men who have faced physical abuse from their wives. These complaints are coming on the Dial 100 emergency service”, said a station officer, Radhey Shyam Maurya.
The police register these complaints in the domestic violence section only but as it is not against women media don’t give a damn about it. Actually, the mentality of society is these women are always the victims and men are the culprit. But as we know the time is changing so the nature of women.“It was only when we made a new column where complaints of men were registered that we realized that this trend is on the rise”, the police officer said.
A senior police officer said that majority of men don't want to lodge FIRs because their own image would take a beating and they do not wish to be ridiculed by their peers. They request us to threaten their wives with dire consequences so that their suffering comes to an end”, he disclosed.
In Lucknow, the Pati Parivar Kalyan Samiti has been set up mainly to deal with issues related to the battered husband. The head of the Samiti Indu Subhash said that “It is a misnomer that women are victims in families. The era of joint families is over and women are now financially independent. There is a strong pro-women bias in administration and police and men are reluctant to present themselves as victims. It is this that is leading to a rapid increase in male suicide cases”.
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