Citation

Bhowate S, Asawa S. Indian J. Forensic Med. Toxicol. 2015; 9(1): 140-144.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. Deptartment of Forensic Medicine)

DOI

10.5958/0973-9130.2015.00033.X

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Instances of cruelty to women have been brought to the spotlight like never before in the recent past. But what goes mostly unnoticed is the plight of a section of men folk, who undergo mental torture and lose the best years of their life and even their careers fighting false allegations charged by their spouses.(1) With an approximately 60,000 such accusations per year, about 2,00,000 people are directly affected by these false accusations. The number of such cases has increased by about 100% in the last 10 year and by more than 15% in just the last two years.(2) Unless urgent amendments are made to prevent the misuse of these laws, credibility of women will be lost. In addition to lost credibility, an overload of false cases will worsen the delays in the judicial process and deny timely justice to women who are genuinely aggrieved.(3)

Language: en