Vadodara: A 28-year-old woman living in Vasna area of the city accused her husband of marital rape and also alleged that he and his parents harassed her for dowry.
Based on the woman’s complaint, Vadodara rural police lodged a complaint of cruelty, rape and under Dowry Prohibition Act on Sunday.
The woman told police that, on July 13, after she was discharged from a hospital for some treatment, her husband, who lives in Bhayli, forcibly had sex with her. She said that when she resisted, he beat her.
When she used to complain to her in-laws about her husband’s alleged physical torture, they would ask her to tolerate it. She also alleged that the in-laws kept abusing her for not getting enough money, jewellery and electronic appliances as dowry.
In her complaint, she also stated that despite knowing that she had never touched liquor or non-vegetarian food, her husband and in-laws would ask her to get meat from a meat shop and serve cooked meat and liquor to them.
She said that she continued to tolerate the harassment to save her marriage, but things flared up on August 26. The woman’s husband forcibly made her sit in a car and dropped her at her parents’ home following a quarrel. According to her, her husband and in-laws confiscated all her gold and silver jewellery and other presents given by her parents at the time of wedding and asked her to never return.