Comments on: Protest Letter to The Minister For Women and Child Development, Ms Renuka Chowdhury http://feministmedia.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/protest-letter-to-the-minister-for-women-and-child-development-ms-renuka-chowdhury/ Presenting the agenda of the Indian radical feminists Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:57:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Gokul http://feministmedia.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/protest-letter-to-the-minister-for-women-and-child-development-ms-renuka-chowdhury/#comment-99 Gokul Mon, 26 May 2008 18:29:40 +0000 http://feministmedia.wordpress.com/?p=13#comment-99 498a& Dowry Act(3,4):more than 22% arrested are women themselves - Wait and see the statistics(not yet available in NCRB) for women affected by DV Act(PWDVA) 3,90,397 persons(of which 87,830(22.5%) were women themselves!!!) were arrested under Section 498A in 2004, 2005 & 2006 as per the data published by the National Crime Research Bureau(NCRB). So over 87,000 women also have been arrested without evidence or investigation in case of IPC 498a cases, in three years(2004 to 2006) so its not just a matter of Harrassed Men, its a clear case of Families in distress due to legal terrorism. Another point to note is that in IPC 498a and Dowry Deaths(304B) the percentage of women arrested are more than 22% of the total number of people arrested(compared to around 5% women in the total arrested in other crimes) Refer the statistics for 2004(http://ncrb.nic.in/crime2004/cii-2004/Table%2012.2.pdf), 2005(http://ncrb.nic.in/crime2005/cii-2005/Table%2012.2.pdf) and 2006(http://ncrb.nic.in/cii2006/cii-2006/Table%2012.2.pdf) . 498a& Dowry Act(3,4):more than 22% arrested are women themselves – Wait and see the statistics(not yet available in NCRB) for women affected by DV Act(PWDVA)

3,90,397 persons(of which 87,830(22.5%) were women themselves!!!) were arrested under Section 498A in 2004, 2005 & 2006 as per the data published by the National Crime Research Bureau(NCRB).
So over 87,000 women also have been arrested without evidence or investigation in case of IPC 498a cases, in three years(2004 to 2006) so its not just a matter of Harrassed Men, its a clear case of Families in distress due to legal terrorism.

Another point to note is that in IPC 498a and Dowry Deaths(304B) the percentage of women arrested are more than 22% of the total number of people arrested(compared to around 5% women in the total arrested in other crimes)

Refer the statistics for 2004(http://ncrb.nic.in/crime2004/cii-2004/Table%2012.2.pdf), 2005(http://ncrb.nic.in/crime2005/cii-2005/Table%2012.2.pdf) and 2006(http://ncrb.nic.in/cii2006/cii-2006/Table%2012.2.pdf) .

]]>