My friends is working with a MNC and has married a girl in the March 2007 , from the very beginning the girl was ill-mannered, her mother always interfered in my friend’s house hold decisions and his wife listened to her mother. In Oct.2007, his wife got pregnant and due to some misunderstandings she left for her mother’s home with her brother and told my friend that, she will come tomorrow, however, she did not come the next day as promised, so my friend’s mother called her father to find out and he refused to send his daughter.
In June 2008 a son was born and still they also refused to send their daughter. My friend tried a lot for settlement at personal level but she her response was always in the negative. Sometime in 2009, his wife came home and thereafter she went weakly to her mother home. When my friend went to get her back, sometimes she would return home but some days she would refuse.
On one such weekend when he went to get her home and she refused to accompany him back home and that night suddenly his father (my uncle) expired by heart attack. When he informed her, she came home for just a single day and went back never to return her matrimonial home. Now since January 2010, she is with her mother and my friend do not have any contact with her.
Please tell me in such a situation what should my friend do.
Also tell me if section 498a or other domestic violence is applicable after such a long gap. My friend wants to live with her as if he takes divorce he does not have money to give to his wife.
