Hi everyone,
This is a Story of my sister and I sincerely request the forum members to advice us…
She has studied only until 10th and she got married at the age of 18… legal age… her husband is supposed to be one Mr. XYZ from BTM Layout, in Bangalore… and he works as a Civil Engineer in a Construction Firm… the reason I told about his job, is to let you know that he is a bit educated and now as my sister has studied only until 10th, he feels that only he knows about Law..
Even before marriage, we had told him everything about my sister, about her education, about her innocence… about her not being exposed to City Life Style and all those stuff and he had agreed on every single matter and had said that he has No Problem… we had one concern, his father has two wives (both still alive, living together) and he is the son of elder wife… we had expressed concerns about this and he had promised that, not even in his dreams is he going to follow his father… and we had agreed and have got our sister married to him…
Everything was fine for the first few months, then, he started complaining my sister, saying that my sister has had, an affair with someone before her marriage and all those stuff… he says that, he had spoken to my sister when she was fast asleep in the middle of the night and she had accepted it… but my sister say No for everything and yes, we know our sister well… Yeah, there is no way that he could actually prove anything also… he only comes up with some names, who are our relatives too…
All this started some 6 months back and by that time she was pregnant too… he was good enough to not hurt the gal, but he always used to call up to our family, threaten us, even go the extent of saying that he will kill the family members…he did not speak to the gal as she was pregnant …
Now, her pregnancy is over and they have a beautiful daughter… now, my sister is staying in her parents’ house (as per ritual). We are ready to have a DNA test too, however, i.e. not required we guess, and this guy has more than gladly accepted that it’s her daughter and does come here once in 15 days or so and speaks properly with everyone in the family, including that my sister…
But then, the problem now is that, very recently, he had come to this place and things were normal and then, the very next morning, he calls up my sister and says that his mother is forcing him to re-marry… god knows the reason… but yes, this call and a few such calls is actually creating a lot of depression in our family and even my sister is totally depressed these days… we somehow believe that, the guy is good, but then, not the family… again, this guy is very reluctant to cross her mother’s words…
We tried to speak to their mother, but she is not responding properly… his entire family has the attitude that, we are from Girl’s side and so we have to always obey what they say and do… Is there any answer for this in Indian Law…?
Earlier when my sister was staying there, (before delivery), when our family used to visit my sister, their family hardly used to let us speak to our gal and there was no way we could know whether our sister was safe or not… can this situation be legally approached, so that, we could have the assurance that my girl is Safe…
Now, probably, in the next two months, we will be sending our sister back to their house, along with the baby, but then, our main concern is the security of our girl and the baby in their house… what are the possible precautions we can take… one thing is that, we want to be on the safe side by taking necessary precautions, at the same time, we do not want to be too aggressive also, because, if things work out fine by themselves, we will be more than happy…
We have another 2-3 months to go before we actually send our sister to their house; however, the major worry is that, what if their family goes for a second marriage to him, without even letting us know… if that happens, my sister will be the sufferer and probably, his dad’s legacy will be continued… we do not want that to happen… so what can we do Now…
Probably, the girls family was happy for only about 2-3 months after the marriage and since then, either the guy or their family is kind-of torturing us, and have recently started torturing my sister also through phone calls… we do not want a fight, but we want our gal to be safe and happy…
Yeah, one more thing is that, this guy has not informed anything (according to our knowledge) about his doubts about the gal to his family… but still, don’t know why is the family now thinking about the second marriage and that too, when the guy himself has kind of admitted that, he had made a mistake by threatening the girl’s family members…
When we try to speak to them, first thing they come up with is, we are from the gal’s side and we have to obey them in whatever they say or do...
Just because we are from the Girl’s family, should we put up with whatever torture they give… even if that guy marries again, can’t we do anything… our family is very conservative, never even been to a Police Station…
