Man cries marriage fake, ‘wife’ moves Bombay high court
Disputes between couples leading to court cases are not unheard of. But recently, one husband went a step too far. He filed a private complaint at the Girgaum metropolitan court, seeking criminal action against his wife for allegedly forging his signature on a marriage certificate and claiming to be his wife.
The magistrate prima-facie accepted his contention and directed the Gamdevi police to lodge a complaint against the woman. Claiming the charge to be false, the wife has moved the Bombay high court, seeking to quash the First Information Report (FIR) registered against her.
As per the petition, the couple tied the knot on November 6, 2006, in an arranged marriage. Thereafter, the husband left for Dubai, where he works in a jewellery showroom. The wife stayed in the in-laws’ house at Kemps Corner. Later, she went to Dubai and returned six months later, after which she began residing in her maternal home. A child too was born from the wedlock.
Fed up with neglect by her husband and in-laws, she registered a complaint of dowry harassment under section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against them.
In November, 2007, the woman moved the family court, which directed the husband to pay Rs40,000 per month as maintenance. This was challenged in the high court by the husband, but the maintenance was instead increased by Rs10,000.
On November 18, 2010, the husband filed a private complaint before the magistrate, claiming the woman had allegedly forged his signatures on the memorandum of marriage and registration certificate, and that she was not his wife. It was a way to extort money from them.
A division bench of Justice BH Marlapalle and Justice UD Salvi, which heard the petition, informed that the case needs to be heard by a single judge bench and directed the registry to place it before the appropriate bench.
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