Xxxxx goes a good old Tamil proverb. Gone are the days when it was the order of the day. Is it possible to take the saying seriously and follow it, in letter and spirit? Exactly, that is what the respondent wants the petitioner to follow.

2. It is shameful to note that women, even toddlers are raped, and murdered; girls are killed shockingly due to one side love; women folk are teased and physically abused every day. Shockingly gang rapes are reported almost every part of India and recently a gang of dacoits raped a woman and her 14 year old minor daughter on 29.07.2016 on NH-01 in Bulandshahr District UP, by waylaying and dragging them out of their car. Crimes against women and girl children are atrociously increasing manifold day-by-day, creating an unsafe atmosphere for girl children and women in our country, which is glorified as our ‘Mother Land’. Similarly, crimes against women are equally committed in the name of ‘marriages’. Child marriages, denial to choose life partner and forced marriages against will, elderly men marrying young girls and celebrating marriages without even normal verification about the groom and his health condition, are a few illustrations of mari