The place given to the women in the society is an important considerable point to check the civilization of any country or place. Indian culture provides the respectful place of women in the Indian society. The invasions of Mughal Emperor degrade the status of women. But various revolutionaries like Raja Ram Mohan Roy came forward with a movement against inequality and subjugation. The status of women in India had gone to many changes in past few years. In the modern India, women have held high offices in the office of President, Prime Minister etc. One of the bitter truth of Indian society is also that there are lots of crime against the women such as rape, acid attack, dowry killings, honor killings and forced prostitution, etc.

Domestic violence in India is endemic. Around more than a half of the women in India are the victims of the dowry death and domestic violence. Section 498 A was inserted by criminal law amendment act to provide protection to the women against these heinous crimes. The National Crime Research Bureau reveals that a crime against women is committed every three minute and one case of cruelty committed by either the husband or relatives occurs every nine minutes but as there is change in the scenario in the status of the women in the modern era the women are not to be considered as the privilege class now. Some of the women in our society are indulged in alleging false allegations against their husband and his family members only to extract money from them and to make them fulfill their unnatural demands. May be because the laws which are for the protection of the women are too much focusing in the favor of women only and ignoring the effects of those on innocent men which is proving to be a grave injustice.

This article highlights the need to develop the multidimensional approach and focuses attention on the misuse of section 498A of IPC and the grave injustice inflicted on the innocent husbands and recommending some tactics to counter the social evil.