Source document: https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1694859712415.pdf (Australia)
Note from the committee secretariat The committee secretariat advises that near-identical submissions were received from the Save Indian Family (SIF) Movement and 23 individuals who are members of the Gender Equality Organisation, Nagpur, India and the Vaastav Foundation, Mumbai, India.

There were no substantive differences between these submissions.

As such, the committee has resolved to receive the submissions as a single submission.
The individuals making such submissions were: Chetan S Kiran Swamy Chanchal Patle Vyankatesh Pandey Shailesh Chopkar Nishant Kamble Gulshan Ghatole Vikrant S. Ambhore Pravin Gale Amol Pohare Sachin V Deotale Umesh Pawar Satish Mourya Pankaj Chure Sagar Raut Vipin Dubey Rohit Meshram Raibabu Dhengre Rupesh Kapse Maxim Y Manohar Angusthi Sakhare Mangesh Lohe Akash Gupta The practice of dowry and the incidence of dowry abuse in AustraliaSubmission 73 To, The Committee Secretary Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Parliament House Canberra.
Subject: My Submission on “The practice of dowry and the incidence of dowry abuse in Australia” Respected Sir/Madam, I am a member of Gender Equality Organisation, Nagpur, India which is part of the Save Indian Family (SIF) Movement.

Our NGO is working on the social cause of promoting family and marital harmony since last many years and it is a non-funded, non-profit and absolutely non-commercial.
Gender Equality Organisation focuses primarily on prevention of Men Suicide in India because of distress caused by Misuse of various Gender Based Laws.

A disturbed Man or loss of a son/brother/father/husband affects the complete family and devastates them.

This Memorandum is being submitted as part of protest against making the anti-dowry law in Australia like Indian Penal Code 498A.
I am writing my submission to address the issue related to misuse and abuse of dowry law and its impact on wider community in Australia and importance to scrap the proposal to make such laws without any study or research.

Following are the important points of my submission: 1) There is no statistics in Australia of dowry law misuse as well as cases of dowry demand.
Few feminists are giving their representation on the basis of skewed facts so a detailed research is required before imposing such a law on men as well as their family members including Senior citizen parents and children.

2) No new law required as the proposed law because the current law available under section 498a of IPC is being grossly misused by women.The law misuse under the above section is already well-established in Indian Judiciary.
In 2005, Supreme Court went to the extent of describing it as Law for LEGAL TERRORISM (Sushil Kumar vs Union of India).

Several High Courts along with the Supreme Court of India has expressed a serious concern over misuse of dowry laws and issued guidelines regarding the same in various judgments.
This provision of IPC claims to have the most negative records such as an infant being granted bail in IPC 498A case, more than 25 lakh people jailed in till date (more than Indians jailed during British ruling of 100 years), more than 47000 women jailed every year, and most of those who were put behind bars were not found to be guilty.
The practice of dowry and the incidence of dowry abuse in AustraliaSubmission 73 3) It will create more complications for Indian men (as from Indian context it can only be used by a woman against a man and his family) so man/his family will always be at the receiving end.

4) No other country outside India has a dowry law: e.g UK, US, Canada.

5) There should be a Punitive measures for false cases filed.

6) More harassment of NRIs (non-resident Indians) living in Australia if this law is passed.
7) Current Indian laws have already separated NRIs from their parents, families, job loss, passport impound etc.

Suggestions/ Demands: Collect the statistics of real dowry abuse in Australia rather than based on stories.

Exhaustive study of the impacts of the dowry law on the family system of Indians and on Indian men in Australia before making a new law.

Dowry Law not required.

If really required change the current framework and bring Misuse Clause with severe punishment if at all it is required.
Study the family law and research of other countries with much bigger Indian population We oppose the creation of any Indian ethnicity specific, gender biased law.

Looking forward to a favorable response and immediate action.

Yours Faithfully Chanchal Patle Gender Equality Organisation, Nagpur, India.

Men Helpline in India 8882-498-498 The practice of dowry and the incidence of dowry abuse in AustraliaSubmission 73