The Karnataka High Court has stayed a cruelty case against a man for not allowing his wife to eat french fries.
While hearing the case, Karnataka High Court said that the complaint against the man was "absolutely trivial".
"Allowing any investigation against the husband would become an abuse of the process of law and putting a premium on the allegations of the wife that she was not given to eat french fries at the relevant point of time. Therefore, there shall be an interim order of stay on all investigation qua the husband," the High Court said.
The court also granted permission to the man to travel to the United States for his work after he submitted an affidavit before the court that he would cooperate with the authorities.
The wife had filed a complaint under Section 498A of the IPC against the man and his parents. The Court had previously stayed the probe against the parents.
In her complaint, the wife alleged that her husband "refused to allow her to eat french fries, rice, and meat soon after she gave birth to their child."
The husband, on the other hand, argued that the wife used to make him do all the household chores during the six years of their stay in the United States before the birth of their child.
"The time that she did not spend on the phone, she spent watching Pakistani dramas," the man said in his reply filed to the court, as per the Bar and Bench.
The Court said that this was a clear abuse of the process of law and that the LOC (Look Out Circular) was being "used as a weapon" in the case.
The HC added that the entire complaint seemed frivolous and that it was inclined to allow the man to go to the United States for work.
