Dear LCI members,
I seek you valuable suggestions and advice regarding false allegations of dowry demand by my wife against me. I got married in Dec. 2012 in Delhi and have a 10 month old son. My wife has been always been under influence of her parents in most of our matters. My wife is from haryana & she is a M. Com. and on suggestion of her younger sister she took admission for Ph.D. in haryana in spite of living in delhi with me & against my suggestion. Probably this was to stay close to her family. After around one year of our marriage, following an argument, she blamed that I have slapped her and called her mother & siblings next day, who threatened me before leaving. They took her along and my wife stayed at her parents’s place for a month before we brought her back to delhi. Again 3 months later, she told me she is going to her parents place with her gold ornaments and our son. During these three months she had been constantly telling me & my parents that she wants to live separately from my parents with me. She did not communicate with me even two weeks after reaching her parents place. After one week of her leaving, I shifted mine & her belongings to a rented house near her parents place and invited her to come and live with me. Initially she agreed but next day she told me that she will only live in my parents house. Since her behaviour hasn't been good with my parents, I was reluctant to shift back with my parents. Almost five months have passed by but she didn't agree to come & live with me in our rented home. Few days back she reached my parents place in delhi with her parents & her relatives & beat up my father, who is a senior citizen. I complained about it to police, but no action has been taken till now. While I am still staying in the rented accommodation in Haryana, she has filed a complaint with false charges in women cell regarding dowry demand and DV act against me & my parents in Haryana. A constable from women cell informed me on phone about it and asked me & my parents to appear in women cell this Tuesday. Her only demand is to go back and stay in my parents place and I fear that once she settles in my parents place, she is only going to file another round of fresh charges against me and my parents. Please suggest me how to handle the situation to avoid inconvenience to my aged parents. Please also tell about how and when to apply for stay on arrest and what documents might be required for that in Haryana. Thanks a lot.
