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A woman can go and file a case against her husband,
if, he asks her to go out and work, but a man cannot file a case against his
wife, if, he’s mentally tortured for not making money up to the expectations of
her wife.
Today, I thought of coming out to the world about a
false molestation case filed against me at a police station in Mumbai, by a 45 year-old
woman for taking revenge on behalf someone’s orders.
The reason
behind is because; I was opposed to my area’s former MLA (Member of
Legislative Assembly) idea of redeveloping the land which was owned by my late
grandfather, and later it was transferred into my father’s name. I refuse to
reveal the name because, I am scared of one more additional false complaint
could be file on me for defamation.
My father because of his business purpose and health
issues isn’t able to handle each and every issue concerning our family, so, I
handle all the matters related to our ancestral land.
In February 2014, I was called up by our MLA and he
proposed me an idea of redeveloping it, to which I somehow, was not convinced.
I was warned of paying heavy prices for rejecting the offer.
My rejection resulted in a false molestation case
filed against me, by the woman hired by the former MLA. It is very shameful that
such human-being exist in our society. The people in our society in my
surroundings tend to judge me of being a molester. The media reports about the complaint
being filed but unfortunately doesn’t reports the trials or my version of the
story, where it’s sometimes very clear that the case is fabricated for personal
vendetta.
I cannot do anything until the case is in court;
I can only experience the mental harassment and judgemental society judging me
of molesting a woman that of my mother’s age.
I’ll fight
the case and I’m sure the truth will get the justice. But will the society
accept me and stop judging me and my family after the truth comes out? ‘Will
the media report my acquittal?
How do I make
the HR, of any given company, understand each time, I go for an interview and
is asked about any criminal cases? How many more times, I’ll have to go to the
police station, in a police patrolling jeep for giving statements and help them to get investigations to its conclusions.
The Delhi High Court, recently said, “Time has come
for courts to deal firmly with women filing false rape complaints as they are
tormentors warranting punishment, false rape & molestation cases makes the
crime graph shoot up, play havoc with the crime statistics and tend to
trivialize the offence of rape and, "no sooner that the news of a person
having been accused of rape spreads in the society, he is looked down upon by
all and sundry," it observed.
While the act of rape & molestation causes intense
emotional distress and immense humiliation to the victim, at the same time one
cannot lose sight of the fact that false implication in a rape case causes
equal humiliation, disgrace and mental agony to the accused, the court further
said.
Deepika Bharadwaj, from TEDx Talks recently came
with a video, which talks about, the Indian Penal Code which is made for the
protection of women but ignores men and their issues.
There are organizations like, Men’s right
association of India” and ‘Save the Indian family’ who are working for the
cause of gender neutral laws and Men’s commission of India.
While all this remains to be unjust for the men, I
continue thinking ‘will they all return me my dignity?’
