India has had a long standing culture of torturing and burning because of dowry and female foeticide.
However, the judicial system instead of fixing the problem went ahead and created lopsided insane laws which are now being exploited.
However, the judicial system instead of fixing the problem went ahead and created lopsided insane laws which are now being exploited.
The bitter pill to swallow is that there are people of all sexes and demographics who are shitty out there and whatever set of laws there is will be exploited by them for their own ends. Someone's inevitably going to get the short end of the stick, because the government actually isn't and can't be all knowing. (And nearly inevitably it's the disempowed who get the short end of the stick. Not because they're better than the powerful, but because the powerful are best positioned to take advantage of any social situation.)