Father-in-law bars ‘possessed’ woman from sex

Ahmedabad: A woman from Vadodara filed a complaint with the women’s police station in Gandhinagar, alleging that her father-in-law had barred her from having sex with her husband, saying that the ‘ghost spirit’ he believes she is possessed by would enter her husband’s body.
When the complainant remonstrated, she was beaten by her in-laws and her husband at their home in Sector-22 in Gandhinagar. She finally had to seek help from the police and filed a complaint under the Domestic Violence Act, the FIR filed on Sunday states.
According to the FIR, the complainant, 43, a resident of Alkapuri in Vadodara, married her husband, a resident of Gandhinagar, on February 6, 2020, at a court in Vadodara.
She said, “My father-in-law believes I am possessed by some spirit and if I have sex with my husband the spirit will enter his body.”
“As I protested against this behaviour, I was mentally harassed and assaulted by my in-laws and husband,” she added in the FIR.
She also alleged that her mother-in-law would instigate her father-in-law to molest her. “Whenever my mother-in-law found me alone, she would tell my father-in-law to go and sexually harass me,” she alleged in the FIR.
The woman states that she was forced to leave her husband’s house on March 10, and since then she and other family members tried to arrive at a compromise but her in-laws refused to take her into their home.
She alleged that her in-laws had threatened her with dire consequences if were to file a police complaint.
She filed a complaint of domestic violence, causing hurt, criminal intimidation and abetment.