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.
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.