Rights of husbands-Social and legal perspective

Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that establish rights and obligations between the spouses. As there is increase in number of marriages every day, at the same time breakdown of marriages in the society has also been seen to be increasing whether by fault of husband or wife. Though cases filed by wife against husband and in-laws under Domestic Violence Act and 498-A of IPC to claim maintenance and divorce but all complaints are not bona-fide. In this insight, the paper explores the various issues related to misuse of women protecting laws by women against their husbands and the rights of the husbands to protect themselves against the like petitions. The paper concludes that the husband is under obligation to fulfill the marital obligations and to some extent our law is also tilted in favour of wife so the need of the hour is to introduce some provisions to safeguard the rights and interests of husbands.