Male Rights in India in Light of Gender Neutrality Bill, 2019
- C M Vaishnavi
- July 2, 2020
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The saying has always stood perfect that “Changing times and their outcomes provide an insight to anything irrespective of procuring something good or preventing the occurrence of an evil in advance”. Likewise, we have witnessed many things which are very influential in the modification of the society. One of the most controversial issues from the ancient times to this modern world has had the provocation for the existence of gender neutral rights. There has always existed a segment where people have fought in order to treat them equal. The Criminal (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was introduced in the Parliament by Mr. KTS Tulsi (Member of Parliament and Advocate, Supreme Court of India) . The motto of this bill was to make the Sexual Crimes gender neutral. The bill was previously introduced in 2012 and it was dismissed in 2013 when it was said by the Ministry of Home Affairs in a PIL that only a man can be a perpetrator and not a victim. This bill aims for the equal treatment of males as well as transgenders where only females were entitled to file a suit if they were sexually harassed or abused by inserting a new Section 375A in IPC and making modifications in the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and The Indian Evidence Act. The section would use the phrase “Whosoever” rather than employing a “man” or “woman”.
