Karnataka High Court Allows Man To Initiate Criminal Proceedings Against His Wife After She Falsely Accuses Him of Cruelty Claiming Husband Suffering From HPV
In her plea, the petitioner's wife claimed that her husband was suffering from Human Papilloma-Virus (HPV), which is a sexually transmitted disease (STD).
The Karnataka High Court recently allowed a husband to initiate criminal proceedings for malicious prosecution under Section 211 of the IPC (Falsely accusing others of committing an offence) against his estranged wife. The bench of single judge Justice M Nagaprasanna allowed the petition filed by a husband while quashing criminal proceedings initiated against him by his wife under Section 498A of IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. In her plea, the petitioner's wife claimed that her husband was suffering from Human Papilloma-Virus (HPV), which is a sexually transmitted disease (STD). The court arrived at a conclusion that the complaint filed by the wife was frivolous. "If the facts narrated hereinabove are noticed and as observed, the complainant has, in gross misuse and abuse of the process of the law, has set the criminal law into motion," the court stated. ‘Husband’s Paramour Is Not Relative or Family Member’: Karnataka High Court Quashes Criminal Case by Woman Against Her Husband’s Lover.
Wife Accuses Husband of Cruelty
[S.498A IPC] Karnataka HC Allows Husband To Initiate Criminal Proceedings Against Wife For Falsely Accusing Him Of Cruelty, Claiming He Had HPV | @plumbermushihttps://t.co/BcbpJINm6W
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