Are dowry and DV cases becoming harassment tools?

Yesterday, I was waiting for my turn in the Supreme Court when a lady advocate appeared as petitioner in person, in her own divorce case.

- Ilin Saraswat

The Hon'ble Bench was really miffed by the arguments of the petitioner (wife) as on the last occasion the Supreme Court had ordered and settled for a particular amount of alimony to which the petitioner had agreed upon. The status report was filed in Family Court as well. But now the petitioner wife wasn't ready to settle. That irritated the SC bench; it said it was going to dismiss the whole petition and the wife would have to return the amount she had taken as part alimony; and both parties would need to contest the divorce case in Family Court.

That made the petitioner wife rethink. She readily apologized and agreed to finish the matter with the rest of the alimony amount left.

This gives us a hint of how divorce and dowry matters are being misused to extort extra money, by stretching litigations to harass the husband and his family and depriving needy women of their rights.