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Farman (Software Enginner)     13 August 2013

Heading for divorce

Hello ..

My cousin got married in January of 2012 in Kolkata .Sufficient dowry money , furniture,bike, gold was taken. She left for Hydrabad in April She stayed there for two months after which she came back(June) to give her final exam in MA in kolkata.She topped the exam.She returned in July again

.But within one month she came back to kolkata and is staying with me ever since . it is a arranged marriage.The marriage happened after one and half year of engagement.

The Groom never entered into a conjugal relationship and continued to maintain relation with his girlfriends before the marriage, even bringing them to home on nights while he maintained distance from the wife.He wilfully avoided and neglected her.She thought that her husband did not have any interest.

In the first week itself, he told my cousin that he did not like her because she was not modern.When my cousin started complaining ,he said that it is his house and he will continue to bring his girl friends.

The girls parents was called on several occasions to the house in Kolkata and were abused.Out of stress and depression , the cousin attempted suicide and was in ICU for three days in kolkata.We tried to reach the groom on several occasion but he has changed his contact number .

We somehow got the new number and when we contacted , she was rudely told that he wants a divorce and he does not wants to continue the marriage . We have tried everything so that the marriage works out .But now it seems that there is no other way . I wang to know that what are the options left for the girl , legally,.

I do not want such a thing to happen to any other girl in life .

Need your advice,Please



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Tajobsindia (Senior Partner )     14 August 2013

1. Arrange via reference hiring a Criminal law practicing Advocate for her. Narrate factual brief and let law of natural justice take over.
2. A ‘criminal complaint using that famous IPC section’ is on the cards against causing mental torture and facts leading to attempt to suicide by a spouse.
3. Preserve ICU notes. Preserve dowry bills. Arrange reliable witness to state facts as and when needed when complaint case is on floor of Hon'ble Court. 
4. Do all these to seek justice not as revenge or exploring hero status for all other girls in this world otherwise mostly such briefs backfire as lot of things looses meaning in third party translation ways to means!

[Also I feel lots of folks are practicing “arrange marriage” with eyes / ears closed not to survey other spouse character – lifestyle status before handing over their daughter in marriage, hence ‘live-in’ is more justifiable model emerging in Modi's India for young peoples so it seems to me!].


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