A public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the Supreme Court, in the wake of suicide by a techie in Bengaluru, has sought the court’s intervention to review and reform the existing dowry and domestic violence laws.
The plea by advocate Vishal Tiwari said that ‘The Dowry Prohibition Act’ and Section 498A of IPC “was meant to protect the married women from the dowry demands and harassment for that but in our country these laws become weapon to settle unnecessary and illegal demands and to suppress the husbands family when any other nature of dispute arises between husband and wife.”
The plea said that because of cases of false implication of married men using these laws, the real incidents of cruelty against women are looked at with suspicion.
Referring to the suicide of the techie Atul Subhash, the petition said this has triggered a nationwide debate on the misuse of dowry prohibition laws and also men’s mental health.
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