The Court said though Section 498-A of IPC was bought with a salutatory object of curbing the evil of dowry, the provision was being heavily misapplied by women to settle scores with their husbands.
Divyanshu Budhiraja is the Haryana Youth Congress President and the party's candidate against former chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manohar Lal Khattar in the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
Justice Harpreet Kaur Jeewan refused to consider the man’s contention that he had married the girl as per the personal law and it was a legal ‘nikah’ since the girl had attained the age of puberty.
Sehgal was arrested by the Punjab Police in an FIR registered on August 25, 2023, under Section 22 of the NDPS Act,1985, at Sadar police station, District Police Commissionerate, Jalandhar.