SEC-498-A______PROMISES OF PROTECTING HER SAFE BY HUSBAND ARE NOW FADED
PROMISES OF PROTECTING HER SAFE BY HUSBAND ARE NOW FADED LANDMARK JUDGMENTS ON SECTION 498A OF IPC Reported cases of crime against women increased 83% from 185,312 in 2007 to 338,954 in 2016. Cruelty by husband or his relatives” was the most reported crime against women, accounting for 33% of all crimes in 2016. So, Are the laws incompetent or are the execution of the law needs to be effective? Section 498A of IPC deals with the crime i.e. Cruelty to the woman by his husand or relatives. UNDERSTANDING SECTION 498A OF IPC Where religions and customs translated marriage as a bond based on love and sharing, local experiences indicated it as a license to ill-treat the wife. Section 498A has been engrafted in the India Penal Code(IPC), 1860 in the year 1983 when the national concise was disturbed by cases of bride beating, suicides, cruelty by husband and relatives on the wife. Section 498A through its explanations defines the term ‘cruelty’ as any wilful conduct which drive...