Why does India needs gender neutral laws?

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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?’