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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (MD)
Mangalore, Aug 23: District Legal Services Authority, Mangalore, Mangalore Bar Association, Department of Women and Child Development, Mangalore and Lions Clubs International District 317-D organized a 'Workshop on Women and Law' on Saturday August 23 at Devadigara Sabha Bhavana, Mannagudda here.
"Harassment of women in India has increased. Even in Ramayana and Mahabharata it is shown that women were being harassed. In the past the safety of women in our country was better that no Indian had the guts to harass her. But now it is increased. Women should stand and fight for their safety. This is how women can survive in our country and become role models to everyone," said Udayananda A, advocate, who was the resource person of the programme.
He spoke on the topic 'protection of women from domestic violence act and law of maintenance'.
He said, "In European countries, every single person knows the law and order of their nation. But in India people do not have much knowledge about the laws. All are equal in the society, no one should threaten the constitutional rights. Till now we never did gender discrimination, but selfishness ruins us. We have lost the bond between our relatives."
He said that people could correct their mistakes when they were living as joint families. He also said that the disasters created by humans were mainly because of broken family relationships.
"No one should misuse the law or break the law. We should not mislead anyone. There are many organizations which are working towards the safety and betterment of women. They do not need to approach the court all the time for justice. All the lawyers get most of the news through the media. We should not have a negative thought on any kind of problem, instead we have to see to it that the problem will not happen again," he added.
Further talking about the topic, he suggested men to change their mentality towards women.
"Any case which is under the investigation should be quickly solved within one year or in six months. It should not be prolonged upto 10 or 20 years. The third chapter in constitutional rights says that the fundamental rights are guaranteed to every citizen of India. It is not only the fundamental rights, it is also the responsibility of every person to look after those rights," he said.
"District Legal Services Authority office door will always be opened to everyone," he added.
During the session, a lady asked a question regarding the moral policing done on the boy and a girl.
Udayananda said, "If anyone does moral policing or take law into their own hands, they should be punished. When a person is in trouble, we should help him. That is when we can call our society stable."
Guest of honour president of Mangalore Bar Association, P Ashok Ariga remembering the death of 'U R Ananthamurthy', said, "It is a sad day for us because he was always speaking about the betterment of women."
"Court is the last door for every unsolved problems. But people go to court to solve silly matters," he added.
Chief guest Ganesha B, honourable senior civil judge and member secretary of District Legal Services Authority, Mangalore welcomed the guests.
Advocate P Ranjan Rao spoke on 'Property Rights' in this occasion.
Lion H S Manjunatha Murthy, Anitha Kini, Arun Shetty, T Keshava Prasad and others were also present on the occasion.