"This court would like to observe that with a view to mitigating the oppression and inequality suffered by the fairer sex in this country from times immemorialm various woman-friendly laws have been enacted so as to empower the women.
"It is a bitter truth that where on one hand these progressive laws have led to amelioration and advancement of the cause of the woman in this country, at the same time on the other hand these liberalized statutes have been flagrantly misused," Justice Kailash Gambhir said.
He said "the right of the woman to her matrimonial home is one such right which has been brought on the statute book to protect the woman from being left in the lurch at the hands of the in-laws".