"After careful consideration of all the evidences, witnesses, and testimonies, the court is dropping all the charges of dowry, harrassment, domestic abuse, and all other charges against Subhash.
The court has come to conclusion that all the charges against him were false."
In the Supreme Court of India, a 60 year old man, Subhash, finally sighed in relief after fighting for his dignity for long 30 years.
30 years back, he had a good job in IT sector, with good income and even a house of his own in Bengaluru, one of the most expensive cities of the country.
And then, he married.
The girl was very beautiful. She was his girlfriend for 9 years, since they were in college.
They had a grand wedding, and he refused to accept any dowry from his in-laws, despite them trying to disguise it as 'gifts' such as car or such.
Two months into marriage, his wife turned pregnant. But he accidentally heard his wife talking to someone on the phone. That 'their' child will be born soon.
He later found out that she has been cheating on him with her co-worker for almost an year, and caught them in the act.
He and his family was immediately hit with false cases of dowry, domestic abuse, harrassment and all sorts of things.
In less than 5 hours of catching them in the act, he was arrested without a warrant, locked up, beaten up by the police, and was also expelled from his job.
The 'women's rights activists' harrased him and his family repeatedly with unbound cruelty.
Thankfully, he had a lawyer friend, otherwise he would have not gotten cleared even after 30 years.
It was difficult.
He had all the proofs. She didn't have any.
Yet he was removed from his own house, the lower courts immediately making him the culprit of crimes he didn't commit.
She was granted divorce, custody of the unborn child, even his house. And on the top of that, she was given huge maintainance, despite him loosing his job. As if she wasn't an earning woman.
The laws want women to maintain their luxurious lifestyle they lived when they were married even as a divorcee, without any compromise.
Next child support was also added. The courts denied taking paternity tests of the kid. They refused any medical checkups of the supposed abused woman.
High court wasn't all that much different. Just asking bigger bribes.
And Supreme Court took 20 years just to even start the hearing of his case.
But... even though he is now 60, when no one will even hire him, even though his life is completely ruined, he will get back at this bitch.
"Subhash will be given a compensation of 1 lakh-"
Huh?
"and Sukriti will pay a fine of 1 lakh-"
Huh?
He looked at his lawyer, and she nodded and stood up.
"Objection Milord!"
"You are allowed to speak."
"My client, Subhash Atul has paid 2.1 crore until now in maintainance and child support, has not lived in his house for 30 years which is now valued at 5 crores. It was also sold by the criminal. He lost his job and any future employment prospects, was locked up in jail unfairly for 10 years, assaulted by police officers, and much more as provided in the court.
He should be entitled to 15 crores in compensation, punishment for the women's rights group which has been tornenting my client for years, 5 crores for destruction of his reputation, and the criminal should get atleast 30 years of imprisonment for destroying an innocent person's and his whole family's life."
"Look Mrs Singh. I suggest you to drop this matter here, now that your client is proven innocent-"
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN!? IS MY LIFE WORTH JUST 1 LAKH!?"
Subhash lost his cool.
He suffered so much. His whole life got ruined. He has been living off help from his family, they had to sell every single property for that b*tch's maintenance, all this...
...and a compensation of just 1 lakh!?
The judge glared at him.
"Order! Order! The court has already declared you innocent. If you want increase in compensation, file another case in the court-"
"THE HELL YOU MEAN!? It took you all 30 years for a case that was crystal clear! You want me to spend another 30-40 years to continue fighting!
I am already 60! My life is ruined! If I don't get my just compensation, I will not move from here!
I am going to do a Satyagrah like Gandhi!"
Frustrated, he sat down in his place, refusing to move.
The result?
He was thrown out of the court. And slapped with 'Contempt of Court' as well.
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He stood on a building just in front of Supreme Court, utterly drained, and having left his suicide note with video and scheduled it to be e-mailed it to everyone that has ruined his life.
Be it that b*tch, her cheating partner, the child that wasn't his, all the courts, judges, police officers, women's rights activists and everyone who has harrassed him.
He knew that his family would be sad, but he didn't want to be a burden to them anymore. Atleast, with the suicide, there will be more outrage and his family will be given more compensation.
Just as he jumped, he wished for something.
'Let me become a woman in the next life. I want to have a privileged life where everyone will believe me instead of calling me s criminal..."
With a splat, his body fell on the road, blood pooling beneath his dead body.
Sometimes, dying is the better option than living. Because it is the only choice remaining in many people's life.
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Saraswati still remembered the last moments her previous life as Subhash.
Just as she had wished, she was reincarnated as a woman. In 1920, around a century back in time.
A very privileged one at that. A daughter of the richest man of the world in the era she was born into, the Nizam of Hyderabad.
Since she had her memories from past life since birth, she was hailed as a genius and easily got into Stanford at the age of 13 in Electrical Engineering, since there wasn't really any course on Computer Science.
She had to relearn many things, and learn many new things, but she managed to graduate in just two years along with History on the side.
It wasn't that hard, especially with her servants writing most of the assignments by copying it from seniors.
And then, she returned.
She obviously didn't want anyone to go through the same thing she had in her previous life.
And that meant having power. A lot of it. Not just the laws in the constitution, but the entire judiciary system needed a complete overhaul.
And having that kind of power meant joining the freedom struggle.
Which led to her getting kicked out of the royal family of Hyderabad, a princely state which was a puppet to British.
Thankfully, she had bought a lot of things under her name beforehand knowing this would happen. And her father didn't want to ruin his reputation so he let her keep all her jewellery, clothing, other luxury items, and even transferred a big plot in Delhi to her before cutting off ties.
She also changed her previous name to Saraswati Singh now. A fitting name for her purpose, based on Goddess of Knowledge and surname being a Lion.
She built a school and a university on some of her plot of land and the ones she bought by selling off the luxurious items and most of her useless diamond and ruby jewellery.
Only gold matters.
Sadly, she didn't have time to form her own party, and got into Congress and could only become its Women's Wing's president.
Red Fort Trial and subsequently Indian Navy rebellion happened, which finally shattered the British foundation and talks about Independence began.
Then Direct Action Day and subsequent genocides started with Jinnah and Muslim League, which forcefully created Pakistan with bloodbath.
And Jawaharlal Nehru still became the President of Congress and the first Prime Minister of India without a single vote, due to Gandhi convincing Sardar Patel to withdraw after winning and recommending Nehru.
She also tried to contest in the voting between top leaders, but her position wasn't enough to even attend.
Thankfully, she managed to get the position of the first Education Minister with Sardar Patel's recommendation, because she has actual educational achievements.
Unlike Maulana Azad who shoved down false, edited and just terribly terrible education down everyone's throats to brainwash kids.
She was getting Women and Children's ministry if she wanted, but it isn't powerful.
The laws and reforms that she wants to bring will need the power of the Prime Minister itself.
So, for now, she will atleast change the shitty Education system which is the base problem of everything wrong there is.