PRESS RELEASEIn association with Rakshak Foundation and MyNation FoundationMisuse of anti-dowry laws and other woman-protection laws has now become a well recognized problem in India. Increasing number of aged parents, sisters, pregnant women and even little children in the husband’s family are falsely accused and arrested under these inhumane laws, and find themselves [...]

Lucknow, March 26 (IANS) Clerics are refusing to accept the new nikahnama, a marriage document prepared by a Muslim women’s organisation, which it claims is free from any gender bias.The All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board (AIMWPLB) has prepared the new nikahnama, inviting sharp reaction from clerics.Sunni cleric Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahali dismissed it [...]

What matters is how two persons in a relationship co-exist.Trust me. I do it all the time: said the T-shirt of newly-married, techie Amit Budhiraja while Rinku, his bright and beautiful wife resplendent in her wedding bangles, clung to him. How misleading photographs are because less than two years later, both are dead. In a [...]

To,The Honorable President of India,This is regarding the recent murder of a married woman Rinku Sachdeva by her husband, Amit Buddhiraj, who was an employee of Software Major Infosys Technologies in Bangalore. Although the whole matter in the media is being hyped up that he killed his wife suspecting her of having an illicit relationship [...]

Bhubaneswar, March 25 (IANS) He thought he would be richer by a bride, but a Dubai-based non-resident Indian found himself poorer by Rs.1.3 million after professing his love to a woman he met in cyber space.Jitendra Kumar Nayak, 27, a native of Ainipara village in Orissa’s Kendrapada district, said he had been working in Dubai [...]

Marriage counsellers have observed that couples who seek counselling for marital discord and husbands doubting their wives’ fidelity, are prone to committ murder or suicide.  Software engineer Amit Budhiraja, who killed his wife Rinku Sachdev on Sunday, showed such symptoms and he was certain that Rinku would file a dowry harassment case against him. Amit [...]