An IT professional with an MBA demanded Rs 12 crore, a luxury Mumbai apartment, and a BMW—after just 18 months of marriage.

Are Indian men, especially those betrayed, expected to fund extravagant lifestyles for individuals who are fully capable of earning? Increasingly, some are taking advantage of a legal system that appears skewed. It is a sobering irony that education and professional success, once seen as tools of empowerment, are sometimes weaponised to extract unearned settlements.

Many such women move on with a smirk, celebrating hollow victories while disregarding the emotional wreckage left behind. Their legal teams, persuasive and strategic, instill in them the belief that the law is unconditionally on their side. For many, this perceived “win”........

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