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Court denounces tendency to implicate distant kins in dowry cases
A woman had filed a complaint in 2006 accusing her husband and his family of demanding dowry
 "Court denounces tendency to implicate distant kins in dowry cases")
Letters: Courts, a ray of hope
The point made by Somasekhar Sundaresan in his piece, "Rule by men -not the rule - of law" (February 23), about governments ceding ground to the courts is a real issue now. It is not just that governments of the day have failed to address major issues affecting society, communities and individuals; there has also been a collective failure of the governance system, with lawmakers not working and understanding the impact of the laws they are adopting; of government officials failing to implement laws and policies already in existence; of the police failing to apply force without being perceived as unfair or biased.Examples abound, one of them being the way India's environment and labour laws have been flouted. Forest land is regularly usurped for industrial, housing and transport projects without due legal process or compensating for forest cover. The same is the case for coastal area restrictions and tribal land. Most major industrial plants now employ employees on a contract or tempora
