Angel A ‘believes in a balanced view on gender equity’, despite all the horror stories she refers to in her post:

While studying the women prisoners for my doctoral work, I found that almost 40 percent of women serving life imprisonment in UP and Rajasthan jails were actually coaxed into taking the blame of the murder committed by the male members of the family in some dispute over property or land. Since, right from the child hood women are taught to sacrifice for the honour of their families, they agreed and resigned to their fate. They were told that soon they would be bailed out; however, after few months the family members even stopped visiting them, leaving them crying, depressed, and cursing to their fate. In most of the cases, their husbands got remarried.