Laws become venomous when they are misused and misinterpreted. Taking the contemporary events of false dowry harassment charges on US/UK residents by their wives has drawn our attention. Section 85 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, which has copied its essence from section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, is picked as a legal weapon to target the overseas Indians with systematic misuse, making this an epidemic.
Do you know? As per the documentation of emergency bail lawyer India for overseas Indians, 70-80% of dowry harassment cases are filed against international residents through fabricated annexures for the greed of financial gains, immigration leverage, or divorce settlement manipulation.