HC dismisses plea for tracing wife after she alleges torture
Madurai (TN), Nov 11 (PTI)
The Madras High Court today dismissed a habeas corpus petition by a man for tracing his 'missing' wife employed with Qatar Airways in Doha after she informed the court that she was working there on her free will and did not want to return owing to matrimonial discord.
Accepting the submissions made in a letter by the woman, a native of Melur near here, and the employment certificate produced by the counsel for the airlines, Justice V Ramasubramanian held the petitioner's prayer to send the woman back to India was unsustainable and frivolous as she was a major and had chosen her own path.
The Judge, who admitted the petition in the light of the manner in which the petitioner had projected the case, made it clear the petitioner and his parents-in-law should not harass the woman by writing to Qatar Airways or the Indian Embassy. The woman said her relationship with her husband (her own maternal uncle), who was 16 years elder to her, and parents was not cordial on account of matrimonial turmoil after the marriage in 2004 and they were trying to force her to leave her job in the company and come back to India to sustain their unprecedented tortures and assaults. "I am not missing but have severed my contacts and ties with my parents, husband and in-laws out of my own decision and the petition filed before the court was nothing more than a false and misleading and concocted story which is pole apart from the ground reality," she said. The woman said she was ready to produce herself before the embassy of India officials at Qatar and demonstrate the veracity of her version. "My husband's sole objective is to bring me back to India and face his absolute brutalities, hence the court should dismiss his writ petition," she prayed. In view of the serious allegations made by the woman, the Madurai bench of the high court said any communication by the petitioner or his parents-in-law either to the airlines or to the Qatar Immigration department would not be binding on them unless accompanied by any valid court order
