Left ladies leaders slam Delhi HC Justice Pratibha Singh for feedback hailing Manusmriti

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Left ladies leaders have slammed Delhi High Court Justice Pratibha Singh for her purported feedback that Manusmriti offers “a very respectable position to women”.

In an announcement on Thursday, National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) common secretary Annie Raja registered her sturdy disagreement with Justice Singh’s feedback.

Speaking on challenges confronted by ladies in science, know-how, entrepreneurship and arithmetic on Wednesday, Justice Singh offered extremely regressive concepts which reeked of casteism in addition to classism, Annie Raja stated.

“Her reading of the Manusmriti willfully chooses to ignore the institutionalised prescriptions of the absolute disciplining and punishing of women bodies and ideas. This is in addition to the despicable ascriptive norms of caste that is encoded in the said text,” the NFIW stated within the assertion.

Justice Singh appears woefully unaware of the pathetic situation of girls at massive and notably of girls from traditionally marginalised communities not simply within the Indian subcontinent however throughout the globe, she stated.

CPIM politburo member Brinda Karat stated as a a High Court decide, Justice Singh is obligation certain to uphold the Constitution of India no matter her private views.

“The scriptures she has quoted are in many sections directly in flagrant opposition to the Constitution and the rights granted to women of India and especially Dalit and Adivasi women by the Constitution,” Karat stated in an announcement.

“Her statement only strengthens the retrogressive views of those who uphold the caste system and that women must accept subordination and control of men, fathers, husbands, sons,” she added.

NEW DELHI: Left ladies leaders have slammed Delhi High Court Justice Pratibha Singh for her purported feedback that Manusmriti offers “a very respectable position to women”.

In an announcement on Thursday, National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) common secretary Annie Raja registered her sturdy disagreement with Justice Singh’s feedback.

Speaking on challenges confronted by ladies in science, know-how, entrepreneurship and arithmetic on Wednesday, Justice Singh offered extremely regressive concepts which reeked of casteism in addition to classism, Annie Raja stated.

“Her reading of the Manusmriti willfully chooses to ignore the institutionalised prescriptions of the absolute disciplining and punishing of women bodies and ideas. This is in addition to the despicable ascriptive norms of caste that is encoded in the said text,” the NFIW stated within the assertion.

Justice Singh appears woefully unaware of the pathetic situation of girls at massive and notably of girls from traditionally marginalised communities not simply within the Indian subcontinent however throughout the globe, she stated.

CPIM politburo member Brinda Karat stated as a a High Court decide, Justice Singh is obligation certain to uphold the Constitution of India no matter her private views.

“The scriptures she has quoted are in many sections directly in flagrant opposition to the Constitution and the rights granted to women of India and especially Dalit and Adivasi women by the Constitution,” Karat stated in an announcement.

“Her statement only strengthens the retrogressive views of those who uphold the caste system and that women must accept subordination and control of men, fathers, husbands, sons,” she added.