My Father in law is a very renowned lawyer of his city and practicing past 40 years with great political influence. My marriage is inter caste, inter state. It did not workout as we used to fight on every issue; small or big, of importance or not. She hardly stayed with me for five months and left my house quarrelling with my mother when I was away on business tour. All my efforts to bring her back are down in drain.
She has such a poisonous tongue that she led me to sucide for four times in the five months she stayed with me. As it was apparent that our marraige will not succeed, both the families decided to seperate us forever.
Citing provisions of HMA (divorce within one year in case of exceptional hardship), my father in law persuaded me to write a suicide note dating ten months back and a declaration dating six months back that; "I have suicidal tendencies and I declare that I will not commit such act in future and if so, nobody from her family will be responsible"
On the basis of the above two, they sent me a "dissolution of marriage deed" on Rs. 500=00 stamp paper. The stamp paper is purchased from the court my FIL is practicing in, the signature is of my wife ( I think so ), It is a four page deed with signature of my FIL, a witness and my wife on all the pages and also it has been notarised.
So far so good. Now, I have received a DV notice after about six months of receiving the above dissolution deed and they have accued me of threatened them in siging such a dissolution deed and have demanded heafty maintenance. The have annexed my sms and e-mails wherein I have asked them to send me the divorce papers to sign as proof.
I trusted my FIL and did exactly as he said but now they are using everything against me. I know that I should not have done this but then, to get out of the mess I was in, was the only thing on my mind and my FIL himself said that his daughter was at fault in breaking the relationship and said he was sorry to lose me. He gave me sugar coated pills and is now demanding heafty alimony.
Is there a way out? Is it possible in any way to prove that a learned councel can not be threatened to sign on any document over phone and that too in the presence of a Notary? Is there a way to prove that supposing the documents were signed forcefully, they should have taken action immediately and should not have waited for six months to file a DV case ?
And the most important thing - On the date the papers were signed, I was in other part of the country and I have witness / hotel bills / meeting schedules / air tickets / phone records to prove that I was nowhere near them.
Kindly guide. I have detailed the incidence here to caution others that we should not trust the otherside, come what may.
I hope that some of the experts will surely show me a way out.
Thanks in advance and look forward to your replies
RVP
