Supreme Court directs IPS wife & her family members to tender apology to husband & in-laws for cases filed

In a divorce case, the Division Bench of B.R. Gavai, CJ., and Augustine George Masih*, J., deemed it fit to invoke the power under Article 142 of the Constitution and dissolved the marriage between the parties and directed the wife, an IPS Officer, and her parents to tender unconditional apology to the husband and his family members for physical and mental trauma caused to them due to cases filed by the wife, which led to the husband and his father languishing in jail for 109 days and 103 days respectively.

The Court further held that guidelines framed by Allahabad High Court in Mukesh Bansal v. State of U.P., 2022 SCC OnLine All 395, vis-a-vis ‘Constitution of Family Welfare Committees’ for safeguards regarding misuse of Section 498A of the IPC, shall remain in effect and be implemented by the appropriate authorities.

[Shivangi Bansal v. Sahib Bansal, 2025 SCC OnLine SC 1494].