If you are a bachelor looking for a bride or you are looking for a bride for your son , for God's sake please be informed about IPC section 498a which can be used to loot your family. Please follow the below checklist to make sure you are not getting a 498a wife or daughter in law. It would be better if you can hire a detective to gather the informations mentioned below. This would save you from the huge humilation, harrasment that your family may face in police custody/jail.
- Check whether someone from the girl's father's family or mother's family has ditched her husband for trivial reasons and staying in her parent's house
- If the girl that you are going to marry is currently having a full fledged relationship with someone who is a frequent visitor to the girl's house - stay away
- If the girl is having a relationship with her brother in law or her close relative - stay away
- Check whether the girl's family is in deep debt (lot of home loans, car loans) and their income is less than their spending
- If both the girl's parent are working , be double cautious , girls with lot of freedoms can really be troublesome
- Make sure there is not much difference in economic status between your family and girl's family
- Make sure the girl is a good match to you physically. (example if she is fat and you are too thin, stay away)
- If the girl starts saying things like "I love you ,etc." before marraige , just do not get melted , 90% of the time she may be just acting as told by her parent.
- if the girl has got a close lawyer relative and the lawyer is not earning much from his practice, be extra cautios. Verify whether the lawyer is ready to fight a fake 498a case.
· If the girl is very hot tempered , better to avoid
- If you belive in astrology , for God's sake get both of your kundali matched by a good astrologer
- If you are not taking any dowry , better put in writing that "No dowry was exchanged in this marriage" in a stamp paper and get it signed by the girl and her parent