Protect woman in her hubby's house: Court

Chennai: The VII additional sessions court, Chennai, has directed police to provide protection to a woman who sought to reside in her estranged husband’s house.

In the petition, the woman of  Avadi, submitted she was married to a person of  T.Nagar here. After the wedding, her parents-in-law started abusing and torturing her. She was locked up in a godown which was infested with rats, scorpions, mosquitoes and other poisonous insects.

On May 10, 2010, they asked her to bring more jewels and a motorcycle from her parents house. When her father visited the matrimonial house the next day, they called a group of persons and conducted a ‘katta panchayat’ to demand more dowry.