Section 498A: The Myth of Misuse

Bindu Doddahatti draws from her experience from working on a report on s. 498A with Women’s organisation Vimochana. With her interests lying in criminal law and the Constitution, criminal justice, and Abolition Feminism, she hasworked as a litigator at the Lawyers Collective, New Delhi, and at the Alternative Law Forum, Bengaluru. She is currently associated with the School of Policy and Governance at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore as well as Prisons Forum, Karnataka. She has a Bachelor of Law degree from the Karnataka State Law University, and a Master of Law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she was a Fulbright-Nehru and Dean’s Scholar, and a Penn Law Human Rights fellow.