India especially disabled women survivors of Psychiatry and Psycho social disabilities are kept as
marginalized minority group and I want to speak for their cause and reasons in this forum.
The women living with psycho social disabilities are not treated on par with others in the family and
treated as Psychiatry patients and they are brutally attacked by the family members including husband,
children, in-laws, neighbors and other relatives and slowly made to confine to one room and not allowed
to participate in any of the family decision making activities or lead a normal life at their domestic level
and all social contacts for them are deliberately terminated at that end. The neighbors also make use of
their conditions and loot their movables, jwells and cash and try to participate in the vindictive activities
against the victims and the law is not helping at this end which is more critical as they victims could not
stop any attacks on them by these violent or cunning attacks on them and finally the victims are more
victimized and live in lurch.
The Police is the first access to the victims which is also prevented by the perpetrators and if they
reach the police the perpetrators gain the support of the police with their money power and make the
victims fools and send them back with out any action. This is the case going on in Tamil Nadu, India
even if it proved to be an act of criminal intimidation on mentally suffering woman they support the
perpetrators and not the affected victims.
The next platform for seeking justice to these innocent victims is the legal and judicial platforms which
is also closed because the lawyers and judicial authorities go hand in glove and the innocent women are
not able to prove themselves or the victimization against them because there no one single civil or
criminal law to speak on the mental health or related disabilities including Psycho social disabilities and
recover their properties immediately or to protect them from any of such vindictive and criminal acts
against them and the cases are dealt in the normal civil courts
as an ordinary civil issue and in case of marriages also the same type of dealing is seen and there
is no women justice in this land, India.
The direct access to police, law and justice is denied by number of ways and the women living with
mental health related issues and disabilities including Psycho social disabilities who are vulnerable
minority group facing violence and injustice on account of their properties and other civil issues
including marriage, child bearing and other natural issues.
Persons living with Psycho social disabilities need not be intellectually disabled but vulnerable for
domestic violence and brutal attacks on them due to their poor cognitive abilities and life skills and
management and they are not able to take valid and logical decisions at times and property related
issues and become vulnerable for attacks on themby any vindictive acts and attitude of others and
become victims and the sabotage on their properties and wealth.
The property attachment and rights are important for them because in many cases when the victim
women are driven out of their home and at that times the property is alone only support for their
sustained livelihood and the women are deliberately made homeless and poor by the'