Indische Männerrechtler verbrennen Abbilder des Justizministers

Last week, Indian Men’s Human Rights Activists burned effigies of Law Minister Kapil Sibal to protest against the passing of an anti-male no fault divorce law in Upper House of Parliament.

According to this law, a woman can oppose the divorce petition filed by husband on the grounds of grave financial hardship, but a husband has no such rights. This law empowers the courts to give a share of husband’s self acquired, inherited and inheritable property to his wife apart from ordering the husband to pay alimony or maintenance. If a property can not be divided, then the husband has to pay the wife an amount equivalent to the share of the property he is ordered to give. Indian MHRAs have little trust in family courts.

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