Marriage has become a profession for Indian women as the Kausar Begum case has highlighted. Rampant misuse of marital laws has created a huge income generation opportunity for women with nefarious designs..

“ONLY LET me know when you find a man who has a big car, cooks and a driver,” said my cousin sister to her shocked mother when they tried to show her some pictures of some of the grooms. The mother could not even contemplate that while she faithfully completed her duties of a wife and mother with a husband, who had a meagre income and not even a cycle for transport , her daughter coming from this kind of background had dreams of moving into royalty through marriage .

Indian women are increasingly considering their marriage to be a highly profitable profession and not a relation as it used to be.

The recent case of an extremely successful “professional wife” is Kausar Begum. She used the marital laws to trap and harass the innocent husband and has made a fortune worth crores, thus highlighting fears of similar misuse of the law by other women.

Kausar, who could also hold the dubious distinction of most “harassed woman” of India has made more money through marriage than many highly successful career oriented men would have dreamt making in 10 lives. Not only did she extort lakhs of rupees through each false dowry cases, she also was awarded alimony by the Indian judiciary in most of the cases.

Kausar is just an extreme example of modern Indian women, who look at marriage as just a venture to make money and then leave their husbands and in-laws. The only difference between Kausar and the other women is that she did not stop at one or two men but went on and on till she was caught. Kausar is just one of the millions of Indian women, who misuse the biased Indian marital laws for their own vicious desires.

Helping the women of India in their nefarious activities are the marital laws of India. They were originally intended to protect them but are now being misused in almost all the cases. These laws are misused more in the following:

The Anti Dowry law: Leading the pack among the biased laws is the infamous Anti Dowry law. Tons of ink has been spilled on the misuse of the law and it is so infamous that the American State Department, too, has issued a warning to its citizens marrying in India. The government claims that 98 per cent of the cases under this Act are filed with malafide intentions. The Supreme Court has called the misuse of this law “legal terrorism”.

The Indian government and the National Commission of Women, despite knowing very well about the misuse of the law, refuse to change or modify it , due to reasons known best to them.

The Domestic Violence Act: This is another horribly biased act created by the Indian government to for women like Kausar Begum to misuse. This law basically assumes that the woman is always telling the truth and allows the woman to claim compensation from the husband even before the allegations are proved. Further, the law allows the woman to annex the family residence of the man even before the allegations are proved. Thousands of young men and their elderly parents have been “legally” thrown out of their residence by their unscrupulous wives using this law .

Alimony Laws and Divorce laws: The Indian judiciary believes that wives only have rights in a marriage and husbands have duties. Not surprisingly, the wives treat Indian men as free ATM machines and extort money through the alimony and divorce laws and the judiciary supports this behaviour. Women are always treated as the abused and men as abusers. The judiciary fails to the see the fact that for Indian women, marriage has become a profession where they sit at home and make more tax free money than they could ever imagine to make in their careers.