Gender inequality within homes, privacy cannot be a cover for violation of rights, know why CJI Chandrachud said this

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said that there cannot be a cover for violation of privacy rights. He said this in the context of the need for legislation to bring out gender inequality within households. The country's 19th CJI E.S. In a lecture organized in memory of Venkataramaiah at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, he said that people should be made aware of the purpose of the law to protect both public and private places. They have witnessed gender discrimination in public and private places. He said that there is a provision in the Indian Penal Code that when two or more persons quarrel and disturb public peace, it is considered a crime.

However, it is punishable only if the fight takes place in a public place. This dichotomy between public and private has formed the basis of feminist and economic criticism of our laws for many years, she said. For freedom of speech to truly exist, it must exist in both places.

CJI Chandrachud said that home, as a private space, is a place of economic activity for a housewife, where she is not remunerated for her services. A sense of justice develops when we are ready and willing to open our minds beyond the notions that society has taught us to hold.

Justice Venkataramaiah was CJI in 1989. He died in 1997. His daughter Justice B.V. Nagarathna is a judge of the Supreme Court. She is in line to become the first woman Chief Justice of the country.