[2] Founded in 2005, SIFF is an advocacy group against what it calls misuse of Indian laws related to dowry harassment.
[5] In 2010, the group claimed on its website to have "30,000 members on the ground and over 3,500 on the internet who are fighting this legal terrorism with vigour and passion like commandos".
They assert that men are abused physically and are subject to legal, mental and social harassment by their wives because of these laws,[7] and that lawyers and women use them to extort money and family property and to deny child custody to fathers.
[8] SIF members have sought to have the laws made gender neutral and be amended to include protection of men against abuse by women.
[16] In contrast, police and women's groups have denied the group's claims of widespread misuse of anti-dowry laws, stating that only a small minority abuse the law,[10] and the approximately 7000 deaths of women every year who die due to dowry demands.