Stating that a stranger to a family does not come under the scope of a penal offence of 'cruelty to wife', the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court quashed a case under IPC section 498-A registered against a 'mediator' and four members of a family. However, the bench refused to grant relief to the husband and his married sister.

According to a report in Times of India, the HC gave the verdict in a case where a woman had filed an FIR against her husband and his relatives, alleging cruelty under Section 498- A. In her complaint registered in Hingoli in 2019, the wife had also named the mediator.