INTERNATIONAL MENS RIGHTS ACTIVIST India's Sec.498A Divorce Law as Criminal Law + Divorce Articles

Anti-dowry law makes it wife-biased, discriminatory,and poorly formulated. A complaint from your wife or her family member can land husband and his entire family in jail without any investigation. "The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist." - Winston Churchill

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Indian woman fined for seeking divorce on impotence grounds

July 27, 2010

NEW DELHI — An Indian court has slapped a hefty fine on a woman who cited her husband's sexual impotence as grounds for divorce, a report said Tuesday.

A judge in central Madhya Pradesh state ordered Vandana Gurjar on Monday to pay 200,000 rupees (4,440 dollars) to her estranged husband Hemant Chhalotre, the Press Trust of India said.

Chhalotre had complained the impotence accusation "rendered him unmarriageable and sullied his prestige," the news agency said.

The amount of the fine far exceeds the annual income of millions of Indians.

Gurjar married Chhalotre nine years ago but left him after just three months, and later sought a divorce -- granted by the courts -- on the grounds that she "could not have conjugal bliss with Chhalotre as he was impotent," the news agency said.

Chhalotre then sued his wife for defaming his manhood.