Acquittal of Husband under Section 498-A IPC

It is true that it is open for anyone to file complaint or lodge prosecution for redressal of his or her grievances and lodge a first information report for an offence also and mere lodging of complaint or FIR cannot ipso facto be treated as cruelty. But, when a person undergoes a trial in which he is acquitted of the allegation of offence under Section 498-A IPC, leveled by the wife against the husband, it cannot be accepted that no cruelty has been meted out on the husband. Rani Narasimha Sastry v. Rani Suneela Rani, (2020) 18 SCC 247.