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Will not having sex with wife amount to cruelty, within 498A the husband and his family members can be punished, decision of the High Court in this matter.

 If the husband and wife do not make physical relation in their married life or the husband remains disturbed with his wife and does not make physical relation with her, then will he come under crime. This means that the wife can put him and his parents in jail by proving him a crime.

 What is the whole matter?

 This is the case of Bangalore where a couple got married. After marriage, whenever the wife used to go near her husband and tried to have sex with him, the husband would stay away from her and start watching TV saying that I am a saintly man, keeping distance from her. . The wife got angry about this and she put the husband and his family in jail, making a case of mental torture under section 498 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

 Court decision.

 In this case, the court gave its decision that if a husband is not doing this after marriage, then it does not mean that the husband has become a criminal under section 498A of the IPC and file a criminal case against him and his family. But you can file a case of torture under the Hindu Marriage Act 1956, but you cannot call him a criminal under the IPC.

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