Neha Gandhir, an entrepreneur and her husband have been recently fined of Rs 25 lakh by the Bombay High Court for the misuse of gender protection laws. Gandhir, the proprietor of Feel Good India Company, Haryana was in a trademark infringement fight with a Mumbai-based company called Sapat and Company. She allegedly threatened to file a false molestation case against the court receiver.

“Time and again, it is noted with distress, that a socially enabling piece of legislation, is being grossly misused with impunity, by the very gender for whose empowerment it has been enacted, leaving the male/s facing grossly wrong and derogatory charges, which they have to thereafter defend themselves against. Such gross and patent misuse of a socially enabling piece of legislation has to be sternly condemned by the Courts and dealt with a very stern hand,” said Justice S Kathawalla.