JABALPUR: Complaints received and disposed at the weekly public hearing at the police headquarter in Jabalpur displays a shocking trend. Law and order issues have dipped to a mere 20%. At least 80% of complaints pertain to domestic discord. Of this, 55% are women who want action against errant husbands, but the number of battered husbands seeking justice has touched an all-time high of 45%, SP Jabalpur Harinarainchari Mishra told TOI.
Statistics with the family counselling centre service provider under the Domestic Violence Act (DVA), 2006, pegs the number of harassed husbands at 70% as per data recorded between 2013 and 2014, said Anshuman Shukla, principal counsellor in family court. The numbers have shot up after the passage of Domestic Violence Act (DVA) in the last five years, he said.
"We see men in slings, bandaged, bruised and scratched," he said. The centre recorded 224 complaints under DVA in January and 160 were filed by husbands. Majority of these men are unable to cope with the situation and run away from home.
A study by the centre also found that the stretch between Jabalpur, Amarkantak to Hoshangabad is full of sadhus who broke marriage vows and took to the saffron robe.
They are bolstered by the law. Section 419 of MP and Chhattisgarh Police Act and Regulations categorically states it's not the duty of police to trace an adult male and force him to return home if he has voluntarily quit, they can continue with their anonymous existence unhindered.
Then there is this curious phenomenon of 4,500 missing husbands from family court records. These are men, who were ordered to pay maintenance to their wives under Section 125 CrPC and they have left the town or state, the survey found out.
Mishra had to take special care to sensitize his cops to take complaints by men seriously. "They are trained not to joke and giggle when a husband walks in with bruises on his face," he told TOI.
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