Police protection for woman visiting in-laws
The women along with her two-year-old girl child to her mother’s house
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-08-24 03:55 GMT
Chennai: The Madras high court has directed the Ambattur all women police station personnel to give protection to a 29-year-old woman who left her matrimonial house along with her two-year-old girl child to her mother’s house in Bengaluru due to the alleged torture meted out to her by her husband and his family, to enable her to enter her matrimonial house in Ambattur and take her dresses and medical records of the child.
Passing orders on a petition from Bhuvana (name changed) Justice K.B.K. Vasuki also directed the Ambattur all women police station to deal with the complaint given by the petitioner in the manner known to law and in the light of the direction issued by the Supreme Court in Lalita Kumari’s case.
Petitioner’s counsel R.Y. George Williams submitted that the petitioner and her husband got married in Chennai on August 22, 2010, and a girl child was born to them on June 19, 2012.
She was residing with her husband and daughter in her father-in-law’s house in Ambattur. Since her husband and in-laws demanded dowry and harassed her, she spent sleepless nights She left her matrimonial house along with her child on June 27, 2014, without taking any materials or documents belonging to her and her child to safeguard her life.
She was a postgraduate with M.Phil degree. But, her husband was an undergraduate. However, she tolerated the atrocities for nearly four years since she considered family life was more important, George Williams added.