MISUSE OF LAWS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BY WOMEN

There are many instances where the main point of discord between the couple was that the wife wanted the husband to leave his parent's home or an old parents and set up a nuclear family. Since the man resisted this move, the wife used 498A as a bargaining device, without success though. In one instance, the young wife being the only daughter of a wealthy businessman, wanted her husband to move in with her parents because his income allowed middle class comforts, not the luxuries she was used to. Since he did not succumb to the pressure of leaving his parents, of if a women having extra-marital affairs, wanted to settle with new partner where the husband and her in-laws resists, that too after having the grown up children, she got both her husband, father and mother in-law arrested and put in jail for several days under 498A. Is it not a misuse of law against our own and that too loved ones? might be the percentage of misuse is less but trust me, many many homes and families are badly hit!!