For this we need to work like "Wikipedia"............. (Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written collaboratively by many of its readers. It uses a special type of website, called a wiki, that makes collaboration easy. Lots of people are constantly improving Wikipedia, making thousands of changes an hour, all of which are recorded on article histories and recent changes. Inappropriate changes are usually removed quickly, and repeat offenders can be blocked from editing.)
Since we don't have the same kind of facilities/resources like wiki, we have to make do with the same style working principle, but through a blog(http://bok498a.blogspot.com/ ) where we can invite contributing members. And all these members can be made Admins(or moderators) of this blog, so that they can edit the earlier posts and create more and more exhaustive, incisive and targeted solution contents- which can be suitable for every kind of 498a situation.
For example I am posting the solution I wrote to Mr.Sukumalchandra(as in the mail below) to the blog, with the subject title as "Post 498a: When passport is feared of being seized, and person anticipates detention for an unreasonable time". After I post this, an email will be sent to all the members(we will make a yahoo group of whoever wants to be member, or can use one of the dormant groups like sif1@yahoogroups.com for this purpose), and members(who are also Admins) can add on to the content, introduce links to judgment, articles, etc. or edit it for correctness, so on and so forth..
We can make an index/content page of all posts to this blog which contan links and cross links(as explained in http://498a.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33 ), and put this index/content page in a prominent place on the blog, so that we can navigate to the appropriate section of the 498a situation we are trying to address(either to give advice to new members or to research for our own purpose).
So this email is going to be the first introductive post at http://bok498a.blogspot.com/ , see you there. I will be inviting you all soon to become members+Admins. We will announce this to the more people once we get a hang of this system and adopt some procedures to make it efficient as we keeping working on it.
Our advices and our own researches for 498a solutions can be giving a cutting edge this way, do contribute to this BOK building at your convenience. Lets make this a success. Don't you feel the enormous potential of this BOK system, already?
Once you are an Admin cum member you can edit/append an existing post and of course create a new post, etc. Read more on building content and in what structure/format : http://bok498a.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-we-can-build-content-structure-of.html
One easy thing for you to build the content is to include all your advices to victims(which anyway u all are painstakingly doing) in appropriate manner(with links to the index( have not made a separate index yet, but its just 2 post now), so all the 2-3 posts will be displayed in the main page anyway, for all to see).
regards
Gokul
PS:mail me at drmura@hotmail.com or Vinayak at e_vinayak@yahoo.com , if you are not made an Admin yet, or for any other queries, suggestions, etc- you can also post comments for all the members to see. SO experiment all the features of this blog. This is our Blog... our BOK Missile against the misusers.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gocool
To: Satya Kumar ; (Ca)vinayak ; (ca) Sanil ; santhakka@yahoo.com ; rao257@yahoo.com
Cc: sukumalchandra@yahoo.co.in
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 1:36 PM
Subject: Please advice & refer this member to someone working abroad, who has gone thro' Passport Impounding+Bail
Hi All,
This SIF member( sukumalchandra@yahoo.co.in sukumalchandra (at) yahoo.co.in ) is working abroad, his parents are in delhi facing a high profile case in Andhra(the
delhi to the local congress committee- but we are all free and hitting back now
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Do give ur tips, to this family in distress. Their son can avoid coming to India and just be where he is, but since the parents PPs also are seized they cant visit their son + this case will never be closed until the son comes and faces the legal procedures. Better fight now, sooner or later u will have to either do it or submit to the oppression- this is my frank opinion.
2 comments:
Great Job. Appreciate your useful service to innocent Indians.
Another classical example of the gross misuse of Dowry Act (498A) is the case of television celebrity, Suhaib Ilyasi. India's Most Wanted television host was in controversy after the dispute over his daughter Aaliya's custody rose soon after Ilyasi's wife Anju committed suicide on January 10, 2000 in Delhi. While his mother–in-law, Rukma Singh wanted custody of the child on the ground that she had the right under Muslim law, Ilyasi had taken the plea that his marriage with Anju was not solemnized as per the Muslim law but had been a civil affair. His sister-in-law Rashmi Singh came from Canada after six months of her sister's death and filed a complaint with the police against Ilyasi, alleging that he used to torture his wife Anju for dowry.
The case took bizarre turn when Anju's brother Prashant Singh and father Prof K P Singh took a diametrically opposite stand and described the allegations against Ilyasi as ``rubbish.'' Prashant told Express Newsline:`whatever my mother and sister Rashmi are stating against Suhaib Ilyasi is a lot of rubbish. There is no truth in their statement or in the charges filed by the police against Suhaib. If you are holding Suhaib responsible for Anju's suicide, then my mother and sister are also to blame, as they unduly interfered in their family matters.
K P Singh, a retired IIT professor, agreed with Prashant. “My wife and daughter are breaking up my family”. Both Anju's father and brother allege that Rukma and Rashmi have given statements against Suhaib as `they wanted custody of baby Aaliya. When Ilyasi delayed that, they put him in trouble.'
Anju's mother Rukma Singh had changed her earlier statement given in January, 2000, in which she had stated that she did not suspect any foul play by Suhaib Ilyasi. However when Ilyasi refused to give custody of his daughter, she change her statement and alleged dowry harassment against Ilyasi.
It has been alleged for long that Dowry Act (498a) in India is being consistently misused by clever women for extortion and blackmailing. The NCRB records suggest that during 2005-2006, 94% of the 498A, 304B cases filed by women or by her relatives were primarily to settle scores.
Section 498A in itself is, however, not meant to deal specifically with dowry -- it is commonly considered to be a 'dowry law' because domestic violence against a wife related to dowry demands is considered to be within the scope of 'cruelty' envisaged by the Section.
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