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My friend-well educated from upper middle class and cultured family married in 2004 as per Hindu rites, and accepted on negotiation before wedding an over-aged,middle class and under-qualified man against her mild epileptic record. Her parent accepted him as they did not find any abnormality in his behavior during his two-three meeting prior to engagement nor his old parent and sisters showed any such sign.

After wedding, she realized the true conduct of all persons in her marital home .Being from metro city, she found an uncivilized and village-culture at her marital home which after her entry was nicely occupied with valuable gifted assets on demand by in-laws but still dissatisfied- their first true color.Then,she was made to work like dedicated ‘village-bahu’,loaded with laborious jobs whole day without rest.Slowly she realized more and more true colors of her husband and in-laws. She found him a greedy,lusty and debt ridden husband who was ordinary laborer in past and also was involved in unscrupulous activities and fond of friendship with police and lawyers.By seeing superior status of his in-law side, he built inferiority complex.So, out of jealousy ,he did not leave a single opportunity to insult and humiliate her and his in-laws in uncivilized manner on not getting any dowry expect the aforesaid gifts from in-laws and their relatives

My friend stayed only for about six months after wedding but suffered all kinds of harassment from her lusty,jealous,and suspicious husband and also got conceived. So husband insisted her for check-up. She refused and insisted that she would do it at parent’s place where her family doctor knew her critical case.This gave further chance to her husband for harassment by exploiting her vulnerable situation and by taking a stance to have doctor of his choice. It became further worse after few weeks on negative reports requiring early termination of pregnancy.On this, husband and her in-laws became more violent to cause mental and physical harassment including depriving her of i)proper food, ii)medical care of such critical case and iii) emotional support required in such conditions.Also, they started confining her in room and cut-off her contacts from her parent.

On not able to bear cruelty, my friend informed the same to her father. This made her husband very angry and expelled her from the home by shouting at her to let his in-laws bear the expenses to terminate her failed pregnancy caused by epilepsy .Her parent did the needful and took her back to marital home for reconciliation and told them that only after thorough medical test of couple the cause of failed pregnancy could be ascertained before claiming epilepsy as a cause as per expert doctor who did termination. However,husband could not bear the advice of his test and refused to go for the same.He then started abusing his in-laws and threatening to divorce .For this he planned in advance and exhibited his mean conduct forcing his wife and in-laws to leave his house.Thus he succeeded in his game plan in blocking her rightful attempt to cohabitate with him and clearing his path for getting rid of his wife.He was cunning and knew in advance that epilepsy attack of such mild nature ,which never occurred during the six months of her conjugal relationship with him, could not be ground for divorce.So he took alternative plan to get divorce.

Within next two weeks of her expulsion he filed false police complaint and concurrently registered legal notices. Police did not act on his complaint .On her request to issue her a copy of complaint filed by husband ,they refused and asked her not to worry.The aforesaid legal notices bearing her marital name were undelivered for want of her inability to produce legal identity of such name.From beginning,and during all past years she never initiated any action,nor she received any kind of communication from his side except aforesaid notices and complaints which he rushed initially for reasons well known to him

My friend requests through Yahoo Answer to know
-what action if at all she should initiate to get a legal divorce,
-under what sections he should be penalized for his cruel acts,including those with retrospective effects.
-how she would know what complaints he filed at police stations and what court proceeding if any he initiated against her. Since last six years, she has not received any kind of communication either from police or from any court.
-should she require any protection from her husband for any threat in future or for any legal matter.

Your friend needs to get a lawyer to handle this…it is way too complicated to depend on advice from Yahoo! Answers.

Good luck.