Ahmedabad: Physician beats oncologist wife over her phone use

AHMEDABAD: A 29-year-old woman, an oncologist at the Asarwa Civil Hospital, on Tuesday filed a complaint at Madhavpura police station, alleging that her husband assaulted her and abandoned her because he was annoyed with her for using a mobile phone.
The woman, a resident of Shahibaug, said that she has been working at Civil Hospital whereas her husband is a physician and lives at Adani Shantigram Meadows Residency in Khoraj.
They married on January 25, 2019, and were living at her husband's house in Khoraj.
She alleged that her husband picked quarrels with her over petty issues and even tore her clothes when he got angry at her.
Her in-laws also allegedly kept demanding a dowry of 100grams of gold and a car from her.
"On October 5, 2019, my husband snatched my mobile phone and broke it by banging it on the floor. When I asked him why he did this, he told me he was annoyed at my using my phone constantly," she alleged in the FIR.
She further alleged that her husband threatened to kill her if he ever found her using her mobile phone.
As she objected, he thrashed her and then pushed her out of the house.
She had then submitted an application of complaint at Bopal police station, but as some community members were trying to strike compromise between them, she did not pursue the matter and no complaint was filed.
Four months later, she filed a complaint at Madhavpura police station under the Domestic Violence Act, use of abusive words, criminal intimidation and abetment, against her husband and two in-laws.