According to the National Crime Bureau of India, more than 15000 husbands have committed suicide after harassment by their wives . Rajesh Hasmukh Desai (November 2006) , Pushkar Singh (February 2008) and Rakesh Sheth (March 2008) are a few.
And in Sheth’s case, the wife was not arrested.
And another case cited on the message board of rediff.com:
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“I know of this case in Mumbai.I had mentally predicted knowing the girls family as well as the boy that the so called love marriage would be on the rocks soon.The boy a brilliant software engineer from a traditional family, it appears got enamoured only by her beauty and youth.The girls family was not really well to do but thought of the boy more like the goose that lays the golden egg.
True enough boy played the role of the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg –
somewhere along the line he realised that he was fattening his in laws at the cost of his own aged parents at Bangalore requiring constant medical attention-
he then makes the mistake of correcting his attitude towards his own parents and all hell breaks loose and he is rewarded with a 498A to him and his aged parents as well.
Alas the in laws have killed the golden goose with it…”