The woman had claimed that her husband pretended to be an eye surgeon but turned out to be an optometrist.
In a recent judgment in Rohan & Others v. The State of Gujarat & Others, the Supreme Court of India quashed a case filed by a woman who had accused her husband and his family of luring her into marriage through deceit.
The Bench, comprising Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K. Vinod Chandran, observed that while the woman claimed her husband falsely presented himself as an eye surgeon and concealed a skin ailment, there was no substantive evidence to back these allegations.
The Court also pointed out that WhatsApp exchanges between the couple showed no indication that the husband had misrepresented either his medical condition or his professional background.
“From all reasonable assumptions as well as the documents which have been placed before us, it is clear that the complainant had full knowledge that the appellant was suffering from skin disease and he was not an Eye Surgeon but an Optometrist,” the Bench observed.
Consequently, the Supreme Court quashed the First Information Report (FIR) filed by the woman.
The decision came in response to a petition submitted by Rohan and his family members, who had contested the Gujarat High Court’s earlier refusal to intervene.
Rohan’s wife had approached the police a few months after their April 2023 marriage, alleging that she had been misled into marrying him under the belief that he was an eye surgeon. She later claimed to have discovered that he was, in fact, an optometrist and suffered from leukoderma, a visible skin condition.
However, the Supreme Court concluded that there was no evidence supporting her allegations of deception and ruled that the FIR represented an abuse of legal process.
As a result, the Court overturned the High Court’s ruling and dismissed the FIR.
