I am a govt employee and got married in August 2016. My wife filed 498 case against me in August 2017 after leaving my place as she was not liking the pregnancy which was confirmed. She threatened me with cases and asked me to leave my parents, which I didn’t agree to. She also got aborted and filed false cases against me with all wild allegations of additional dowry and harassment and included all my family members even though they are not even involved minimally. She filed DV case also with same contents. I went through hell for past 9 months as police exploited me like anything and extorted huge money for not arresting me. Luckily, now I am on anticipatory bail, which the honorable court has granted me owing to merits in my case. The hearing of these cases has already started. Now, my in-laws and wife have started drama of mediation for compromise, which I am not interested in as I doubt they might again do this to me and I don’t want to take any further risk, as I am a govt. job holder. They also might be doing this as they know that all their allegations are fake and I have strong evidence to prove them wrong in court and next time they may hatch more serious and cunning plot against me in a planned way, if I take her back now. I already showed lot of patience on many occasions, but now I just can’t take this anymore from this woman for whom family life is a joke. I seek clarity on following things, kindly help.
1. Whether I should be good to them and make them withdraw cases first and then file divorce without taking her back or fight the cases in court, as I have all the evidences.
2. Whether I can send her divorce notice while these cases are still pending in court.
3. How to change my lawyer, as the present one is only extracting money from me and is not up to the mark. I am afraid he might not give all the papers to new lawyer and trouble me if I change. I feel he is not that serious with my case and I find his approach to be very casual, which might affect my argument in court even though I have strong evidences.
4. My wife might not be interested in divorce and want to trouble me for long, how to handle this.
5. Can I file case against my wife and in-laws for abortion? It was less than 20 weeks pregnancy.
6. I want to get rid of all this and live a peaceful life, as this is causing lot of mental trauma to me and affecting my job life. What should be the best course of action in my case.