1 Married Man Ends Life Every 9 Minutes in India!

West Bengal accounts for 1.06 lakh case, which is more than 20 percent of the total cases filed under the section and 80,000 people were arrested for such cases against him last year, Indranil Gupta, an official of the NGO said.

The NGO works for upholding the rights of married men and providing them mental support when falsely implicated under the section. The police say it is 'really hard' to prove the cases as false.

"Till now we have not been able to prove that these cases are false because they are cases of mental torture. How would you prove that mental torture has not taken place?" Joint CP (Crime) Pallab Kanti Ghosh said.

Criminal lawyer Kaushik Chanda agrees that Sec 498a is "misused" but said whether the suicide of married males is linked to it should be looked into.

"The reason for suicide by married males should be looked into because in most cases they get bail (after being charged under the section 498a)," he says.

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