'Pay 80% taxes and get second class citizenship "seems to be the message of the Indian government to the married men of India. Married men in India have today been reduced to second class citizens who are systematically discriminated against by the Indian Police, Indian government and the Indian Judicial system. Instead of being protected by the law, the Indian laws are instead used to harass Indian husbands.

Indian men contribute more than 80% of the country's taxes and still have little or nothing spent on their welfare. The state systematically denies them any rights in a married life and creates laws to purposely harass them and their families in all ways possible. Thousands of crores are spent every year through various different channels on women's programs, little or nothing is being spent on welfare for men. The Government of Indian has a ministry for welfare of animals but has still not heeded to the requests for creation of a Men's welfare ministry.

Laws in India are so biased against men that women who have never married in India or do not have children who are Indian citizens also come all the way to India to misuse Indian laws. Most marital laws are unconstitutional and go against articles 14, 15, 20 and 21 of the Indian constitution which guarantees fundamental rights like right to equality before the law, special provision for weaker sections of the society, multiple trials for the same crimes, and right to liberty. On one side the government promotes that they are committed to eradicating the dowry system completely from India on the other hand they allow the exchange of dowry and extravagant to go unabated thereby only partially implementing the Anti Dowry law. But once the exchange has happened the government backed laws arrests millions of husbands and their families without the slightest iota of evidence or investigation under the draconian and senseless section 498A of the Anti Dowry act. This unnecessary vilification of husbands and their families in done to justify the existence of biased laws and there is no doubt left in the minds of the people that this partial implementation is being done purposely to trap men and their families while keeping the dowry system intact.

In terms of Alimony, Indian laws are no better. In the western world there exists hard and fast ruled for alimony for women. If for example, in most US states alimony applies only when the marriage has completed 10 or more years. However in India the biased judiciary and police force men into a ‘compromise' against their will by trapping them in biased and nonsensical laws and then make then pay huge settlement amounts to women who have broken marriages which have not even reached their first anniversary. Child custody remains with the mother all the time and the father gets visitation to the tune of 1 hour a month.

The less written about the newly created Domestic violence act of 2005 the better. Better known as the Property Grabbing Act of 2005, this act has been misused by the empowered women of India to grab the properties of husbands and their families. The law was so badly drafted and worded then while the creation of the law the normally biased Indian judiciary too commented on the viability of a biased law this. Misuse of this law also has reached epic proportion and now misuse of the DV act competes with misuse of section 498A which according to government is misused in 98% of cases.

The resulting consequence of the systematic torture of men in India has been catastrophic. More than 56000 married men commit suicide every year due to spousal harassment as compared to only half that number of women. Even after the suicide of the husband every attempt is made to make this death as a death due to unknown reasons and no punishment is ever meted out to the wife who was responsible for the death. In fact the two main categories that men's deaths are classified in the national crime records bureau are ‘Unknown reasons' and ‘Other reasons'.

The fact that governments are cruel and deliberately attempt to subjugate the rights of husbands in India is deplorable and shows a very fascist attitude. The government must immediately amend the marital laws to make them gender neutral and then proceed to create a men's welfare ministry and study and arrest the rising men's suicides in India before the situation goes out of hand.

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