As for protecting the men's rights:
On receipt of the complaint, the Court shall issue a notice to the defendant calling upon him to show cause within seven days of the receipt of notice as to why any order under this Act may not be made and if the defendant fails to file a reply within the specified time, the Court, subject to service of the notice on the defendant, shall assume that the defendant has no plausible defense and proceed to pass any order under this Act
If a person slaps his wife, he wouldn't only get registered under domestic violence act (which is ok since he did commit domestic violence), but he will also lose his personal firearms he bought for protection, he will be made to wear GPS tracker, AND he will be made to wear a sign/bangle so that he is recognized in public as someone who had a conflict with his wife.
Does it state about slap or is that shear assumption?
the gps is for the following:
Protection order ...I doubt this will be issued for a slap!
and Penalty for breach of orders: which is a penalty on the accused part for breaching orders!
Liberal elites, who lived and get educated abroad, having no idea of problems of local Pakistanis, believe that just copy-pasting Western laws will improve situation in Pakistan. If anything, it will make things worse.
I dont doubt that it can be copied and pasted...
(d) wear ankle or wrist bracelet GPS tracker to track the movement of the
defendant twenty four hours, seven days a week
(f) surrender any weapon or firearm which the defendant lawfully possesses or prohibit the defendant from purchasing a firearm or obtaining license of a firearm;
IF
a protection order is passed it literally means the guy might be a psycho not coz he just slapped his wife!
(c) the defendant shall not sell or transfer the house to any person other
than the aggrieved person;
This is in case of domestic violence,
may in addition to any order under section 7, pass a residence order directing that
(c) the defendant shall not sell or transfer the house to any person other....
NOT A MUST
@AUz
You were talking about definitions apparently they still stick to British laws: A word or expression not defined in this Act shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Code or the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 (XLV of 1860).
For all the remaining arguing read this point too:
The Government shall establish a data-base and software for timely service delivery and monitoring and evaluation mechanism in the prescribed manner with a view to achieving the objectives of the Act and, where necessary, shall introduce necessary reforms for the purpose.
Reading that bit made sure this bill wont be functional till next 2-3 generations! We still dont have a proper NADRA thing...I mean their own bloody officials sell passports and CNIC so to have another databse is not really foreseeable in our lifetime
I do not accept for a moment that women were not protected by law in Pakistan. The law enforcement may have been non-existent but I do not buy for a moment that there was no such law
There is / was law...implementation sucks big time in Pakistan!
Throwing out a man out of his own home based on just a complaint is definitely inhumane.
Not based on a complaint...Based on investigation...and not throwing him out
THE BILL did manage to state
The
Court shall proceed with the complaint under this Act and the Code and shall fix the first date of hearing which shall not be beyond seven days from the date of the receipt of the complaint by the Court. (3) On receipt of the complaint, the
Court shall issue a notice to the defendant calling upon him to show cause within seven days of the receipt of notice as to why any order under this Act may not be made and if the defendant fails to file a reply within the specified time, the Court, subject to service of the notice on the defendant, shall assume that the defendant has no plausible defense and proceed to pass any order under this Act. (4) The Court shall finally decide the complaint within ninety days from the date of the receipt of the complaint, as nearly as possible,
under Chapter XXII of the Code relating to the summary trials.
The last bit literally means never....Coz that code so far hasnt really been raised from its death bed!
I don't think you know me. I rarely argue about such laws in Pakistan, this thread is just one case. When I do argue about these kinds of laws, it's mostly about the existence of such laws in western states. This is a Pakistani forum so you'll not see me doing that a whole lot here, but on other websites I argue far more furiously against such laws in western countries, because I am subjected to those laws.
fair enough!
Women have access to household objects and knives when committing domestic violence. They will not necessarily just use their hands to commit violence. Having access to these objects evens out the field quite significantly.
Well then they fall under murder...and I dont see a bill separating genders for murderers! THANK GOD!
i am strongly condemn those men and judges how are abusing those law but that doesn't mean in its response i will support another law which too can be abused in the future.
All laws can be abused...all you need is a good lawyer ...I read about some laws of some countries esp since I travel and I have a healthy group of student friends studying European law...So I get my share of knowledge
Women are not blamed for being victims of such crimes. If they claim a guy did this to her, the guy will get beaten to smithreens.
OMG ...have you not read it has been in news soo many times I have no idea how to even defend a society that does that let alone denies it happening!
Instead of importing solutions we are now importing problems from the west.
BTW these mullahs have indeed become a joke. They tried to solve everything by the tool of Jihadi force. If instead they had tried to solve the problems of society by reason and logic they would have been not only respected in Pakistan but probably around the world. Nowadays any words that come from a mullah are ridiculed on social media by the people at large just because they are said by a Mullah.
If logic existed our parliament would be full of capable human beings not elites who have no idea what a normal man goes through!
Women have access to household objects and knives when committing domestic violence.
and men live in the toilet? they too live in the same house with the same access...