So far we heard of city girls tying the knot with an NRI and would live happily ever after, however this certainly isn’t the case anymore.
According to State Mahila Commission, the number of women duped with an NRI marriage hasn’t gone down in spite of copious background checks and precautions taken before going ahead, as reported in Deccan Chronicle.
Recently, a 24-year old from the city alleging that her husband living in Australia and his family are ensnaring women from the city in the name of marriage.
And so she lodged a complaint about her husband and also plans to approach the Commission to get her dowry money back.
“I don’t want to go back to that person. I want them to be punished, so that they don’t repeat this with any other woman.”
While the in-laws were detained, the case is still going on, but there might not be much relief any time soon, because the husband is still working in Australia.
Last year in 2014, more than 150 cases of harassment were reported by women from Hyderabad only.
About 50 petitions were filed with the Women’s Commission from the state so far in 2015 and not any of the cases have been tackled.
The trend is very disturbing and the victims are by and large women in their early twenties who were get cheated and left in the lurch.
According to Women’s commission chairperson, there should be new rules formulated and inter-department coordination for quick justice in such cases.
“In one case, the husband of an engineering graduate from the city sent her the divorce via post from USA. The couple had two kids who are citizens of USA. Though the Indian laws won’t accept the divorce, the laws of the the US do. The woman wanted to see the kids once, but we can’t force it because of the laws of that country. Eventually had to give up,” said Tripurana Venkatratnam, chairperson of AP State Mahila Commission.