The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court quashed a dowry cruelty FIR, ruling that criminal proceedings should not be used to settle personal scores. Justice Sanjay Parihar stated that allowing the prosecution to continue would be an abuse of the law. The FIR was filed by an estranged wife against her former husband and his mother, following a divorce granted in 2022. The court found the case to be a retaliatory action stemming from matrimonial discord.