P Chidambaram on 30 August 2010 in the lok sabha page 149-150.
Home Minister P Chidambaram in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) on 30 August 2010. For the full - and surprisingly frank - speech see page 142-157
Justices Lalit and Goel delivered another similar - and controversial - judgment in July 2017 to hobble Section 498 A of the Indian Penal Code, enacted to protect women against widely prevalent cases of dowry harassment. They ruled that the account of the victim in such cases not be taken at face value and forbade arrests or coercive action against the accused in such complaints without ascertaining the veracity of the allegations. For that, the bench suggested the creation of family welfare committees in all states and ordained that “all such complaints received by the police or the magistrate must be referred to the family welfare committee and no action should be taken against the husband and the in-laws till the committee gave its report after interacting with the parties'.
Clarification by Ministry of Home Affairs, footnote 11, page 28, in K B Saxena Report on Prevention of Atrocities against SCs, NHRC, New Delhi, 2002, quoting Dr. T.R. Naval in his study Law of Prevention of Atrocities on the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (2001), page 38.
