08/01/2025 Legal
The Supreme Court of India dismissed a wife's misuse of Section 498A IPC, where she filed a dowry harassment case against her in-laws to coerce her husband into granting a divorce. The court emphasized that such false allegations undermine the law's intent, which aims to protect genuine victims of cruelty, and warned against its misuse.
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