Harassed by in laws for dowry what can I do
05-Jul-2023 (In Family Law)
I married on January 2016 .from the first day of married life onwards husband and mother mentally torturing me for dowry. Pressuring me to ask money from my home.In husbands home ,husband and mother only there.for this marriage i changed my Christian diocese and became born again.becaue of their faith they not allowing me to talk to my parents or see them.they saying like I will lose faith in Christianity if I go and talk to them ..my mother in law mentally torturing me by saying about this faith.she is not allowing me to be with my husband.from the first month of married life onwards my husba
You can approach weomens vommission anf give a complaibt agsinst the same.you can file DV case against them.Lodge a police complaint. Get recording of alll acts and you can use it as evidence.For detailed advice contact me through phone consulting
Certainly there are many an option available to you. You can file civil and criminal action against your husband and mother-in-law or simply lodge an FIR. However, much of the facts stated are intriguing. What do you mean by ".for this marriage i changed my Christian diocese and became born again"? And some of the facts mentioned are less than convincing, being stranger than fiction.
you have to convey all problems and threats to your parents . You can approach the magistrate court for getting a remedy from their threat of mental harassment. DV act is usable for saving the life from such situation. The Domestic Violence Act includes actual abuse or the threat of abuse whether physical, sexual, verbal, emotional or economic and according to the law harassment by way of unlawful dowry demands to the woman or her relatives.
You can also file a police complaint before the nearest police station. If you want to continue the relation then try for a amicable settlement with the help of relatives or close friends.
You can also file a police complaint before the nearest police station. If you want to continue the relation then try for a amicable settlement with the help of relatives or close friends.
You file a petition before the Police station against your in laws. and at the same time you can file the petition before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court against your husband as well as his parents
Since you state that your marriage was not consummated you may file a case for annulling your marriage for non-consummation of marriage owing to his impotency.
This you have to do it within one year from the date of marriage or one year from the date of knowledge.
So file this case immediately.
In the same case you may file a petition under section 27 for return of your articles.
You may also file a petition under section 24 of HMA in the same petition claiming interim maintenance.
Additionally you may lodge a criminal complaint against your husband and his parents for demanding dowry and for subjecting you to lot of mental and physical tortures for not bringing additional dowry. The police will register a FIR under sections 498A and 3 & 4 of DP act.
This you have to do it within one year from the date of marriage or one year from the date of knowledge.
So file this case immediately.
In the same case you may file a petition under section 27 for return of your articles.
You may also file a petition under section 24 of HMA in the same petition claiming interim maintenance.
Additionally you may lodge a criminal complaint against your husband and his parents for demanding dowry and for subjecting you to lot of mental and physical tortures for not bringing additional dowry. The police will register a FIR under sections 498A and 3 & 4 of DP act.
I understand your issues. You have to give police complaint with the help of lawyer against you r in-laws. Moreover you cannot apply divorce without completion of 12 months from the date of marriage.
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