The laws enacted to protect women from dowry harassment and domestic violence cannot be rendered illusory by declaring that the complaint of the wife will lose its significance for the reason that it is registered soon after the receipt of notice of divorce from the husband, the High Court of Karnataka has said.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while refusing to accept the argument made on behalf of a petitioner-husband to quash the dowry harassment case based on an earlier judgement of a coordinated Bench of the court in a similar case.
The petitioner, Pramod R.S., had sought the quashing of the dowry harassment complaint lodged by his wife while pointing out that the judge in High Court’s Kalaburagi Bench had on April 18, 2023, quashed the wife’s complaint by observing that “dowry harassment complaint against the husband and in-laws loses its significance in case the complaint is made after receiving the divorce notice from her husband”.
