17 October 2015, Gurgaon. An NGO called Bharashtrachar Virudh Jagriti Abhiyan raised question on exigency of Section 498A of IPC. The NGO got a case in Gurgaon , where an extra ambitiuos girl was her husband and her in-laws. Though she herself is from a Middle class family, she wanted to live a life of luxury.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court commented on the misuse of Section 498-A, IPC observing that nowadays there is a “package of five cases” being filed by the wife against the husband and his family members in courts
The Jharkhand High Court recently observed that while Section 498A of the IPC was introduced with the laudable object of punishing cruelty by husbands or their relatives on married women, it is currently being misused.