India: Court acquits dowry accused, highlighting plight of men in such cases

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'A sessions court acquitted accused Deeptanshu Shukla of all charges in an unusually lengthy order, running into 70 pages, with several adverse comments on his wife and her family.However, more surprisingly, Shukla, who is an IIT (Kanpur) topper, discovered that not only was he harassed, but his entire family was "wilfully disturbed" in a plan involving a senior Congressman, a member of his wife's family.

Days after an FIR was filed against Deeptanshu in November 2012, his father, a senior scientist with the Geological Survey of India (GSI), was transferred from Indore to Bhubaneswar, sans any explanation.
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On May 6, 2016, an Indore Sessions Court acquitted him of all charges. Deeptanshu claims the police also acted in a biased manner.

"On the night of November 14, I was picked up from a private hospital where my mother had undergone a surgery and was in ICU. Then my residence, where my 70 year-old nana and nani (grandparents) were sleeping, was raided without any search warrant. They ransacked everything, from almirahs to cupboards."

Mail Today tried to get in touch with Deeptanshu's wife and her family repeatedly, but the contact numbers made available to us were all out of service.

The couple was married through a matrimonial website. Deepanshu says, "I used to stay abroad mostly. So my parents found her profile online and we didn't do much of a background search.

However, it is only after I was framed under Section 498A that I realized how dangerous such things can be."'