Some years back, I was sucked into the labyrinth of Indian Matrimonial laws and a false 498a in particular. To be fair, before it hit me, it was difficult for me to fathom the wide spread misuse of dowry laws and specially 498a in India.
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False cases don’t start with guilt — they start with blind trust. In India, believing “it won’t happen to me” is how innocent men lose everything. False 498A Cases & PoSH Misuse in India: Every man begins with a lie he tells himself: “It won’t happen to me.” He watches other men dragged into false […]
Project 39A’s Annual Death Penalty Report 2023 exposes India’s hidden gender bias: all 561 death-row prisoners are men. Trial courts rush, investigations collapse, and the law expands the noose. Why does equality end where the gallows begin? Justice or Gender Bias? Why Only Men Hang in India’s Death Cells Equality before law should mean equality […]
Madras High Court Justice Mrs. Justice J.Nisha Banu and Mr. Justice R.Sakthivel xxxxx Vs xxxxx On 04 June 2025 Law Point: JUDGEMENT 1. xxxxxx are husband and wife, whose marriage was solemnized on September 16, 2015. They were blessed with a male child, namely Vignesh, on July 27, 2016. Some disputes shot up between the […]
The Madras High Court recently set aside a Family Court order and granted divorce to a man who had been estranged from his wife for over eight years. The wife had earlier made serious, unproven allegations of sexual harassment against the husband and his father, which were later withdrawn. The Court held that such unsubstantiated […]
Brief Summary In this case, the court acquitted xxxxxx of all charges under Sections 498A, 323, 406, and 506 IPC. The court found that the wife’s allegations were vague, unverified, and not backed by any solid evidence. No medical records, specific incidents, or proof of dowry demands were provided. The judge held that criminal law […]
Court: Madhya Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE A.K. Awasthy Kamlakant Joshi Vs. Santoshbai Pandya 28 November 2003 Law Point: Wife guilty of making false, baseless and dirty allegations against her husband concerning his character. Husband bound to suffer mental agony and embarrassment living jointly with his parents and family members : Wife living separately from last more […]
Court: RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT Bench: JUSTICE Ajay Rastogi, J. & Mr. Ashok Kumar Gaur Geeta Vs. Raghuveer Singh On 17 July 2017 Law Point: Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ia) — Mental Cruelty — Extra marital relations — No reliable evidence — No foundation — Wife alleges illicit relation against husband with her […]
Court: Bombay High Court Bench: JUSTICE R.M. Borde & A.I.S. Cheema X Husband (Dr.) Vs. Y Wife (Dr.) On 21 January 2016 Law Point: Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Sections 13(1)(ia), 25 — Cruelty — Permanent alimony — Wild allegations in criminal cases one after other — Respondent-wife indulged in various conducts, subjecting petitioner-husband and […]
Court:Madhya Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE N.K. Gupta Savita Soni Vs. Sanjay Soni & Ors. On 10 October 2013 Law Point: Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Section 498A — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 378(4) — Cruelty — Appeal against acquittal — No illegality or perversity — Complainant left the matrimonial house after 2 […]
Court:Himachal Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE Surjit Singh Rajna Choudhary vs. Raghubir Singh On 21 October 2010 Law Point: Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Sections 13(1)(ia), 13(1)(ib) — Cruelty, Desertion — Appellant-wife alleged that respondent-husband was having illicit relations with his brother’s wife, which proved to be false — This allegation amounted to mental cruelty […]