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Where there's will, there's a way (Father-In-Law Income)

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Who would not have grown up listening/reading story of a thirsty crow, who raised the water level in earthen pot by dropping marbles into it and finally drank water? Moral of story was "Where there's will, there's a way". Recently, I got to know of a real world anecdote which captures the moral of the story of crow perfectly. A close friend of mine  Sumit (name changed) is fighting a bitter battle in court rooms with his estranged wife ( knife ) & Family. In between them, they have several on-going cases in various courts of the country. As is the norm in such disputes to extort money estranged knife has alleged huge dowry/Stridhan was demanded and given in marriage apart from huge sums of money spent in marriage ceremonies by her Father along with constant Domestic Violence knife was subjected to. There is not an easy way to prove the charges of dowry and money spent in marriage false in the court of law. Sad part is that woman's word is taken as go

Fighting System with System

This in a way is my first blog because my earlier, may be 10 years back, attempts to blog were just copy paste jobs. However, anecdote below penned (Hurrayyyyy..finally) is an honest attempt to contribute to society.   I recently moved to a new rented apartment in a Delhi locality. To get tenant verification, owner requested me to help him,  I googled and found a link on Delhi Police Website. I was mighty impressed besides other sections website had a section for “Citizen Services” which covered lots of valuable information including the forms and process related to Tenant verification. However, what caught my eyes was a link which took me to the list of sexual offenders in Delhi. This list not just contained name of convicts of sexual crimes, their last known addresses but their face photos as well. Something was not right . Being a curious person all through my life and having an opinion about any damn thing in this world several questions came to my mind instantaneously. First: