India News: NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that married women cannot use police machinery to hold husband at ransom and expressed concern over much abused.
India News: Supreme Court has ruled that married women cannot use police machinery to hold husband to ransom and expressed concern over much abused Section 498A (
The Court said that to make assumptions that a woman, by virtue of her profession as a police officer, cannot possibly be a victim in her own personal or matrimonial life, is a form of injustice.
The Court further observed that compelling a married woman to live in her parental home on account of non-fulfillment of demand of dowry would also amount to mental harassment.
The Patna High Court recently observed that when a husband requests money from his wife's parents to meet the expenses of rearing the couple's newborn child, such a demand does not amount to dowry harassment.