SAVE INDIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION
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(Registered Society No. 1719/2007, Rangareddy District, Andhra Pradesh)

Society for Promoting Domestic and Marital Harmony and Discouraging
Misuse of Gender-Biased Laws

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Sahana means many things to many people, some would say it means "melody" while others say it is "patience" or "tolerance". The inner strength that one needs on being implicated of false cases, filed by unscrupulous wife/dauther-in-law demands enormous patience to prove their innocence. Hence sahana to us means enduring strength. The strength to fight the gross misuse of the gender-biased laws in India.



Sahana,
  • support and encourage innocent victims to gain moral strength and to fight against the evil forces.

  • provide timely advice and help from other members who are fighting their own cases.

  • It is a well known fact that even most of the legal advisors do not have the complete picture and dynamics of IPCs and Matrimonial equations, as they themselves are not victims and has no experience of mental agony, trauma and humiliation. Senior members from Sahana and its parental organization have full know-how about how IPCs work and how to improve your case.

  • fight against abuse of old and sick people, especially by Legal means when they are arrested and put in jail (without investigation) just by one line of false complaint by their daughter-in-law. We want this law for daughter-in-law section 498A to be changed.

  • fight against the Draconian laws which are abused by dishonest daughter-in­law to victimize innocent mothers and both married and unmarried sisters.

  • can heal the pain and suffering for disowned parents and supports father-less or mother-less children due to family disputes.

  • counsel men and his family members from suicide attempts due to humiliation, insult and agony as a result of false dowry cases and encourage them to fight for the justice in a legal way.

  • educate people about the Right to Information Act (RTI) to know the whereabouts and progress of their cases.

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    Chintal, HMT Post
    Hyderabad 500584
    Andhrapradesh

    Web Page: http://www.sahanaindia.org
    Email: sahana-india@gmail.com
    Mailing List: sahana-india@googlegroups.com
    Hyderabad Helpline: 09848280354, 09908578457

    Weekly counceling meetings are held in Hyderabad, Vizag and Tirupathi.
    Contact following numbers for further details
    Hyderabad: 9848280354, 9908578457
    Vizag: 9394505970, 09830151555
    Tirupathi: 9440935509 

    (Source: an RTI application filed by the Save Family Foundation)

     

    Who we are...
    We are husbands, mothers, sisters, brothers, fathers, brothers-In-law, and sisters-In-law of the innocent victims falsely implicated in gender-biased laws. We are a group of Indians based in Andhra Pradesh who have come together on a single platform to fight the 'misuse of 498A' (commonly known as dowry law) under the aegis of Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF). We are here to help the victims and raise our collective voice against the misuse of the anti dowry law (IPC-498A) and Domestic Violence Act against Women (DV Act). We strive to campaign and create awareness about the gross injustices and abuse perpetuated by the Indian Legal system. We, the mothers, sisters, and sisters-In-law of the man are women too. We are not against women, but we are against those who misuse this law and thus depriving the genuinely oppressed woman who really need the help of such laws.
    Nature of Gender-biased laws...
    Legal provisions that are made for the protection and empowerment of women in India are being grossly misused leading to the violation of human rights. Since there are no men empowerment or protection cells, men in India are being subjected to severe social and legal discrimination under these laws.
    The very nature of Harassment for Dowry (IPC-498A), Dowry Prohibition (Dowry Prohibition Act Sec 3 & 4) laws and the recently implemented Domestic Violence act (DV-Act) are a wife-biased (daughter-in-law biased), discriminatory, stringent, unprecedented, exceptional and poorly formulated. One line of written or oral complaint from wife or her family can land the husband and his entire family in jail without any investigation. we are not against the law per se but what we would like to see is the putting in place of proper checks and balances to check the rampant misuse of these laws.
    IPC 498A was introduced to save women from genuine dowry harrassment. But now the situation is, there are more and more innocent women (sisters, sister-in-laws, mothers, mother-in-laws) are being victimized due to false or fabricated complaints. Elder abuse and encouraging disowning age old parents is growing due to misuse of these laws. Single parents and children are also not spared from these evil acts. The growing number of divorce, broken families and men's suicides, especially married men is increasing manifold due to the injustices perpetuated by these patently biased legal provisions leading to what the supreme court recently termed as "Legal Terrorism".
    What do we do...
    We have come together to fight against this Draconian law and to provide protection, succour & support to such aggrieved husband and his family. Being victims of this draconian law ourselves, fighting our own cases, we understand and empathise with the pain, the angst and the loss the victims undergo. We strongly detest all types of harassment on family mebers of the misused dowry law victims, especially women, children and senior citizens.
    We are totally against this tradition of giving or taking Dowry handed down through generations and will do everything in our powers to educate the society on the ills of the Dowry system and help eradicate the same through all possible means. We strongly condemn all forms of Domestic Violence within the family and work for harmony in the family system. We are agaisnt the law that make criminals out of Law Abiding Citizens.
    Helpline Numbers
    All India HelpLine Numbers : 91-9810611534 (Delhi), 91-9243473794or 080-65334135 ( Bangalore )
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    Bangalore
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    09243473794
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    09830151555
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    Chennai
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    Delhi
    09911119113
    09810611534
    09891369616
    Gujarat
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    Hyderabad
    09848280354
    09908578457
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    Vizag
    09394505970
    09830151555
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    Tirupathi
    09440935509
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    Jaipur
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    Kanpur
    09839038424
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    Kerala
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    U.S.A
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