Allahabad High Court slams husband for alleging his wife, daughters were involved in sex racket

The Allahabad High Court has strongly criticised a man for making false and defamatory accusations that his wife and daughters were connected to a sex racket.

The Division Bench of JJ Munir and Justice Vinai Kumar Dwivedi said the petition seeking inquiry into the alleged sex racket was essentially about a family dispute. The Court termed it the “most abominable way” of placing a family cause before the Court.

“The petitioner xxx, who is the husband of the fourth respondent xxx suffers from the holier-than-thou syndrome. He thinks himself to be a crusader against all immoralities in society. During the course of hearing, he has come up with the most scurrilous allegations against his wife and daughters, imputing immoralities to them,” the Bench said.

The husband had earlier approached the Court with a plea alleging that certain “indecent videos” of his wife and daughter were uploaded on pornography sites.

The plea led to registration of a First Information Report (FIR) under various provisions of the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act and the Information Technological Act.

Following a preliminary probe, Commissioner of Police of Kanpur Nagar told the Court that the videos were no longer available on the websites. On the other hand, the husband rejected the police claim and said the cops too were involved with the accused persons.

When it came to forth that a family dispute was at the heart of the allegations, the Court referred the husband, his wife and the two daughters for mediation to amicably sort out their differences.

However, the mediation did not yield any results.

In an order passed on April 7, the Court said that the petitioner-husband “was ridden with an ego of his own that he is the one who holds the banner of morality and the rest of the family have gone the immoral way, something that we have already remarked in ample measure.”

The Court took note of a report given by the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur as per which there were no direct matches between the images provided by the petitioner and those appearing in the videos.

“The IIT, Kanpur have submitted a report regarding the digital documents, photos and videographs supplied by the petitioner including those taken down from offensive websites. The IIT's report dated 25.03.2026 says in the Conclusive Remarks:- ‘Based on the detailed forensic analysis of digital artifacts from the examined videos and photographs, the examiner has determined that there are no direct matches between the provided image and any individuals appearing in the recovered videos or screenshots. The analysis further indicates that the recovered media files are approximately 10-12 years old, based on available metadata and artifact timelines. The available digital evidence supports the conclusion of incorrect or misleading identity association’,” the Court noted.

Considering the findings, the Court said the petitioner had made wild allegations against his family of being involved in sex racket.

“We do not find any basis to issue a mandamus to the police to enquire into any kind of a sex racket, much less direct the registration of an FIR on the basis of hollow allegations. The allegations in the petition, in fact, are very scandalous, some of them fit to be expunged,” the Bench said while dismissing the plea.