AHMEDABAD: A 28-year-old woman, a project manager at Isro’s Space Application Centre, on Sunday filed a complaint for dowry-related harassment and
domestic violence against her husband, who is an electrical engineer in Mumbai.
The complainant, a native of Darbhanga in
Bihar, told Satellite police that she got married three years ago according to her family’s wishes and custom. Ever since the engagement, the accused would harass over various issues and his family members constantly demanded dowry from her parents.
“The complainant stated that her husband had started blaming her for his misfortune ever since they got engaged three years ago. The husband and his family members then started asking for valuable articles as dowry. Though she was being harassed constantly, she did not speak up thinking that she would not be accepted by any other boy of the community if she broke off her engagement with the accused and she went on to marry him,” said sub-inspector Dipti Gamara of Satellite police station. Gamara said the complainant shifted to the city after the wedding, where the problem of domestic violence continued and her husband kept demanding dowry from her and her parents.“According to the girl’s statement, her parents gave ornaments and other valuable items but as they did not give a car, and her husband kept harassing her for a car. Even though he works for a reputed company in Mumbai and earns a handsome salary, he would harass her mentally and even torture her very often,” said the police official.
