Since the publication of the first edition of the book in 1993, there have been innumerable cases of husbands being harassed by wives making false complaints against them. Not that alone, husbands have faced a lot of harassment even from the enforcement and other welfare agencies. Many marriages which could have been saved by objective, sensitive and sensible handling have been ruined because of misuse of certain penal provisions. Rather than mending relations or making the husbands behave, or bring them around rash resort to police and judicial authorities have ended the relationships and back-fired. Even authorities have now started looking at women's complaints with some suspicion. While all sympathy and support was with a woman a few years back, it is unfortunate that credibility is no longer attached to her complaints. While safeguarding her interest, life, property and mental peace still needs to be on top of the agenda in matrimony, the need to ensure that husbands and their families are not needlessly and falsely implicated cannot be underscored. Laws should assist the victimised woman but they should not assist and abet harassment by her of the husband. Fortunately, courts are seized of this phenomenon today and have come to the rescue of harassed husbands. This small book is aimed at setting the ball rolling in this direction all in the interest of family and society.
