Wife not an object: Bombay High Court upholds man`s conviction for assaulting wife

The Bombay High Court has said the wife's refusal to make tea for husband could not be accepted as provocation for him to assault her, and observed that wife is "not a chattel or an object". The notions of patriarchy and the idea that the woman is a man's property still prevail in society, leading a man to think that his wife is his "chattel", the court observed.

from Zee News :India National https://ift.tt/2ZQrBJw

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