The Supreme Court warned against the misuse of the law in marital dispute cases lodged by women against their husbands and families, saying that it cannot be used as a “tool to unleash personal vendetta”. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and N Kotiswar Singh on Tuesday (Dec 10) made the observation while setting aside a cruelty case filed against a man and his family under Section 498(A), which the Telangana High Court had refused to dismiss earlier.
