A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed in the Supreme Court after a techie committed suicide in Bengaluru has sought the court’s intervention to review and reform the existing laws on dowry and domestic violence.
Advocate Vishal Tiwari’s plea said that the ‘Dowry Prohibition Act’ and Section 498A of the IPC “were meant to protect married women from dowry demands and harassment but in our country these laws have become weapons to settle unnecessary and illegal demands. In any other type of dispute between husband and wife, the husband To suppress the family.
It is mentioned in the petition that the real incident of cruelty to women is viewed with suspicion due to cases of false implantation by married men using these laws.
In the context of techie Atul Subhash’s suicide, the petition has sparked a nationwide debate on abuse of dowry prohibition laws and men’s mental health.
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