Men who have reported their own experiences of harassment and violence – ironically, say the law against domestic violence has been used against them by the wife’s family.

27-year-old Sonu Sharma got married in 2016. He says things went from bad to worse for him on 7 January 2017, when his six-month-old baby accidentally fell off the bed.

“My six-month-old baby fell off the bed and was bleeding from his mouth and nose. I told my wife that we have to rush him to a hospital, but she said that she can't, it's my baby and I should take him and that she wants to return to her parents. She called her family, told them that I had hit her and asked them to come pick her up,” he said.

After that, the woman’s family members got some goons and started misbehaving with Sharma’s farmily, he alleged.