Most of you might not know that the popular Bengali actress Swastika Mukherjee had falsely accused her ex-husband in Dowry harassment case.

Last year in the month of September, Swastika Mukherjee had confessed in a media conference that the dowry harassment allegations she made against her estranged husband Promit Sen, were false, thus bringing an end to the case which ran for a span of 10 years.

“I was young, I did not have enough sense back then and I did what my family, friends and peers advised me to do,” is how Swastika chose to explain why she falsely accused her husband singer Promit Sen of “subjecting her to cruelty” and “criminal breach of trust”.

“Things started to go wrong around two years later when like a bolt from the blue my brother, our family and even me, who all lived in different places, were charged by her for dowry related crimes,” said Pritam Sen, Promit’s elder brother.

“We went through hell for the past ten years. So many arrest warrants, all the expenses and the defamation aside, my brother is never going to get back the last ten years. He’s totally mentally devastated,” he further added.

Swastika and Pritam, who is a popular singer, got married in 1998 when Swatika was just 18.

When asked what drove her to suddenly make such an effort, she replied that it was not out of any pressure but just a “realisation”.

“I am deeply sorry for all that Promit and his family has had to go through. I hope he can move on. As far as the custody of our daughter Anwesha is concerned, lets see what plays out. She’s a ten-year-old girl and she too has a say in this,” said Swatika.

Pritam, however, said he and his family were pleased at Swastika’s confession. He said, “I think we should give her the benefit of the doubt. Let’s see what this leads to. But we’ll not accept anything but a genuine apology.”

So the answer to the question that “what happens to a woman who files a false case against a man?” is NOTHING.