Putting An Eye On Human Rights: A Kerala Court in India Clears A Man For Domestic Violence

It’s true that in a relationship, cheating is difficult enough to catch, and even more difficult to prove beyond reasonable doubt, because people can be sneaky like heck. But when the offending party tries to shift the blame on you just so they could justify their actions is an altogether different matter.

In India, the Domestic Violence Act was enacted last October 26, 2006. This prevents male inhabitants from harassing the women sharing his home. This law is supposed to be for the protection of wives, mothers, sisters, mother-in-laws, or any female relatives living with a man. The law covers abuses against women in the forms of: emotional, physical, sexual and verbal tirades. Asking for dowry money, preventing women from working outside the home or forcing them to leave jobs all constitute domestic abuse.

Recently, in Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram the local courts cleared a partially-disabled man from the domestic abuse charges petitioned by the man’s wife. Initially, the “aggrieved” wife claimed that her husband physically abused her, had insulted her in public and had forced her to give up custody of their child (among many things.)

It turns out that all the allegations were false, and that the woman had filed the charges against her estranged husband so as to cover up her affair with her boss. Apparently, the husband stumbled across her illicit romance and the woman came up with these charges so as to counter any possible criminal proceedings that might be filed against her and her lover.

Cheating is definitely ugly, but when a vengeful partner turns on you so as to justify his or her actions, then you should know when to put up defenses. Of course, the best possible defense is safeguarding yourself on the onset. You should be able to tell whether your partner is cheating on you or not.

Here are some classic signs of your wife cheating on you. One: she suddenly goes on the pill when you already had a vasectomy a few years back. Two: she goes on more frequent grocery trips and it takes her longer to get home. Three: she is excited to take calls from someone in the office when previously, she hated this intrusion. Four: she is spending more and more money on lingerie you don’t get to see on her. Five: she has a new e-mail add, and a separate cell phone account and she intentionally doesn’t let you know (claims it’s for business purposes.) Six: she suddenly doesn’t value your advice anymore.

Here are some classic signs of your husband cheating on you. One: he starts carrying condoms in his wallet, and even buys a box load on a weekly basis but he never uses one at home. Two: you find alien stuff on his clothes and stuff like: a strand of hair that’s not your color; feminine scent on him that’s not yours; smudges of lipstick on his shirt, etc. Three: he clears your kids’ stuff from the car and insists that it should be in your car anyway. Four: he’s always doing over time, but for some unexplained reason he is never in his office while doing so. Five: he takes extra measures to look good; he exercises more; he buys himself a whole new wardrobe; she splashes more cologne than usual or shifts to a different kind of after shave. Six: he wants to try different and unusual positions in bed – stuff he was never comfortable with but is now more than eager to try.