{"id":10465,"date":"2018-05-26T07:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T07:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/?p=10465"},"modified":"2018-09-26T07:25:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T07:25:16","slug":"approval-new-draft-law-existing-provision-rigorous-punishment-filing-false-dowry-case-ain-o-salish-kendra-ask-expresses-grave-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/2018\/05\/26\/approval-new-draft-law-existing-provision-rigorous-punishment-filing-false-dowry-case-ain-o-salish-kendra-ask-expresses-grave-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Approval of a new draft law with existing provision for rigorous punishment for filing false dowry case: Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) expresses grave concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Approval of a new draft law with existing provision for rigorous punishment for filing false dowry case: Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) expresses grave concern<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet approved the draft of \u2018The Dowry Prohibition Bill, 2018\u2019 incorporating provisions for maximum five years of imprisonment or maximum Tk 50,000 as fine or both, if someone files a false dowry case. Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) expresses grave concern against such initiative.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, on 07 May 2018, the draft of \u2018The Dowry Prohibition Bill, 2018\u2019 has been finalised incorporating a new provision of Section-5, related to punishment and fines for filing any false dowry case. The Cabinet has given its final approval to the bill. Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) is of the opinion that, women in this country still comprise the disadvantaged class of the society. Most of them are incapable of continuing litigation in the court. In such circumstances, incorporating this new provision in the law is unrealistic and has the potential to increase the ongoing violence against women in the society. Where special measures are needed to stop violence against women and to ensure women\u2019s rights, and even when women are struggling regularly to achieve their basic fundamental rights, in such circumstance, undertaking this kind of initiative to pass new law will definitely create new uncertainties in realising women\u2019s rights. Socially, women are regularly becoming victims of dowry. Maximum use of law in banning dowry or prohibiting the tradition of dowry is confronted with various challenges at the government and non-government levels. We need to remember that, among the many incidences of violence against women, dowry remains the dominant means in the society. Therefore, in such social context, initiative to pass a law incorporating this kind of provision will discourage undertaking legal measures against dowry tradition. In this circumstance, State must take actions to provide protection to the women against the curse of dowry, before passing any law.<\/p>\n<p>Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), therefore, demands that a dowry case filed by a women should not be considered false, if she fails to prove it, hence, the new law needs to be amended properly and required protection for the plaintiff needs to be incorporated before it is passed and implemented.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/gview?url=http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Press-Statement-08.05.2018.pdf&amp;embedded=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approval of a new draft law with existing provision for rigorous punishment for filing false dowry case: Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) expresses grave concern The Cabinet approved the draft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-statement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10469,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions\/10469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}