Another misuse of domestic violence law: Supreme Court warns wife for filling false FIR under section 498A of IPC and the Dowry Act
498A of IPC and under Dowry Act against her husband and in-laws. As per the case history presented in the court, she fled her matrimonial home multiple times and at one such occasions police found her living in a companionship of another man, while still being officially married. She was taken back by her husband only after she gave a written assurance.
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She wrote a letter on November 11, 2021, to the Police admitting that she had left her matrimonial house after quarrelling with her husband because of a person with whom she was talking over the phone for the past ten days continuously. She also stated in that letter to the Police that she would not repeat such acts in future.
However, she did not stop these acts and as per the Husband’s statement to the court, she ran away from home again without informing him, leaving their minor kids in the home.
Fed up with this repeated behaviour, her husband sent a legal notice to her for a mutual divorce. However, this didnt go down well with his wife, as instead of accepting or replying to this notice, she filed a domestic violence (498A) and dowry case against him, and every member of his family. The police registered an FIR based on these allegations. Had the High Court not intervened, the husband and his family would have been arrested. The High Court asked police not
