1. The wife can file case under PWDV Act or u/s 298A IPC irrespective of the fact whether the husband files files suit for divorce or not.

2. So you have to decide whether you want divorce or not. Thinking future uncertainties will not help you.

3. There is no preventive action but if such cases are filed there are many things to be done to thwart the damage.

4. You can obtain anticipatory bail and once you get the same you win half the battle.

5. Then nothing remains in the 498A case though if your wife is unemployed you have give her maintenance.

6. If you are innocent you would not face difficulty to prove your innocence.

498A and DV cases can be filed by the wife even if the spouses are living separately in different cities. To maintain a 498A case it is not required that on the date of filing the spouses should be either cohabiting or residing in the same city. As and when the FIR gets filed apply for and obtain anticipatory bail.

1) wife can file case of dowry harssment and Dv case against him and his family

2) in case false case of 498A is filed obtain AB from sessions court

3) in DV case apply for discharge for parents as there is no shared hosehold

If the wife is provoked on husband's decision of divorce case, she may to the the extent of filing false dowry complaints and false domestic violence cases against her husband and his close relatives.

The period of separation between both can be argued in the trial court during trial proceedings, no doubt it is an advantageous situation.