Suicide Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF) has claimed that the suicide rate of married men is almost twice that of women, due to them being unable to withstand verbal, emotional, economic and physical abuse from their wives.[34] SIFF has pointed to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data to show that suicide in married men is much higher than in married women.[29] Marital Status of Suicide Victims in 2013 Martial status Male Female Never married 21062 10766 Married 64098 29491 Widowed/Widower 2695 2311 Divorced 739 678 Separated 1949 1010 Mithun Kumar, a researcher at SIFF, has said that police dont take any action even if the suicide note of a man states that he was tortured by his wife and in-laws, but in case of a womans suicide her husbands family is taken into custody without investigation.[29] In July 2014, Kumar V. Jahgirdar, president of Child Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting (CRISP), attributed the suicides among married men on family stress. CRISP said that in study conducted by it, it was found that married men committed suicide mainly due to misuse of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Domestic Violence Act of 2005. Swarup Sarkar, founder of SIFF, pointed that there is no legal provision for married men facing verbal or mental abuse.
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