@Adv. Chandu
Yes ... you got it right... there is systematic campaign but not aganist women but to create a real awareness. 498a is not supposed to be bargaing tool for settlement. Most women who really want to get together her husband under influence of their ill adviced advocates file cases and if husband fight back they are left with nothing but a divorce with no alimony. You can see the results here https://tinyurl.com/7r8465y . Filing 498a should be when wife is sure that she doesnt want husband & punishing guilty is top priority than personal benefit. Unfortunately in our country lawyers on both sides are more to gain monetarly with these kind of cases than the actual husband & wife. Most of the time these kind of cases goes aganist the interest of husband & wife while the real intension of IPC 498a to empower women. If you dont believe what I am said read the Supreme Court Judgement about responsbility of lawyers & bar counil here https://indiankanoon.org/doc/46704/ in the case of Preeti Gupta & Anr. vs State Of Jharkhand & Anr. on 13 August, 2010. Conviction rates is 2% in 498a cases. TADA, POTA, POTO was reapealed just bcus conviction rate was 2%. Most of lawyers want to keep 498a alive bcus they are low hagaing fruits for them.
About rape cases.. recent NDTV report showed that most of rape cases are just for money & most of them are consensual s*x gone bad after the act. In rape cases conviction can happen only on statement of victim unless she contradicts her self. But still the conviction rate is just 30%. Bcus most cases are settled out of court for money.
Everbody wants to make money and be rich one day. But, there is different between providing real justice to victims & providing blood money & breaking families.
@chandrasekhar
Sorry ... its conviction of accused. We dont need misogynists nor the male haters in the society.