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NCRB data simply categorises suicide cases of men and women by marital status: unmarried, married etc. To put the record straight, NCRB reports no data about “suicides from mental torture by wife”. VARANASI: Most Lok Sabha MPs laughed off BJP member Harinarayan Rajbhar’s plea in Parliament on August 3 seeking a men’s commission for harassed husbands. Abuse of the anti-dowry law is their primary grievance.According to Vakharia, the National Crime Records Bureau has put out data that “one husband is pushed to suicide every 6.5 minutes in India due to mental torture by his wife”. But the idea has some keen backers, 160 of whom recently performed the last rites of their divorced wives — all alive — and also conducted an apparently tantric ceremony to tackle “the evil of feminism”.The men, from across the country and associated with NGO Save India Family Foundation (SIFF), performed ‘pind daan’ and ‘shraadh’ of their ex-wives on Ganga’s banks “to get rid of their failed marriage’s bad memories”..