Key words: Domestic violence, PIL, Suicide, Married men, Sexual Herrsament.
A PIL was file by an Advocate on Record Mahesh Tiwari seeking the central government to set up a ‘ National Commission for Men’. On Monday (03 July 2023 ) Supreme Court refused to entertain the PIL.
The division bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Dipankar Datta was hearing the matter. Petitioner also sought to frame guidelines to regulate the suicide cases of men due to domestic violence and also to conduct research on other difficulties faced by married men in India.
The Court said that men also have legal remedies for such cases. Family members of such victims have legal remedy under criminal laws. The Petitioner sought the directions to issue various guidelines to entertain and redress the complaints of men going through domestic violence. The prisoners counsel submitted National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) showing total rate of suicide by men due to domestic violence. For which court ask the counsel to also submit to reports of women committing suicide due to domestic violence, it further said that many women commit suicide with one, two or three years of marriage.
The counsel of the petitioner presented that the ‘Vishakha guidelines’ which were issued in the year 1997 by the Supreme Court lead to the formation of legislation for the Protection of Sexual Herrsament of Women at Work Place. The court was of the opinion that the courts will interfere when the matter is justiciable. Court also said that committing suicide depends on case to case.
The petitioners after the arguments sought to withdrew the PIL.
Name: Manaswini Datar, University: Karnataka State Law University, Semester: 8thintern under legal vidhiya
