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No changes in domestic violence law for now: Renuka

NEW DELHI: Dismissing criticism that the new domestic violence law was too harsh on men, Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury has said women lived in dangerous situations and ruled out any immediate amendments to it. "Women live in dangerously self-embracing situations. Even if you see it as a ferocity in the Act or the ambit is too wide, please understand that women are burnt to death, beaten to insensitivity," Ms. Chowdhury told Karan Thapar in his Devil's Advocate interview for CNN-IBN.

Asked whether she would consider amendments to the law in the light of the criticisms, she said she was open to doing it but not at the moment.

``There's always need for corrections and amendments in any law as we progress, as a society develops and the needs ariseBut for what? Hypothetically, before we reach the bridge and cross it if you want me to make amendments, I won't," she said.

To a question on whether men should suffer before the Act undergoes changes, she said in a lighter vein: "That's not a bad idea except I have such pity for men."

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