AHMEDABAD: A 60-year-old woman from Vejalpur on Sunday filed a complaint with the police alleging that her 62-year-old husband refused to give money to her for buying medicines and when she persisted, he thrashed her.
In her FIR with the Vejalpur police, the woman married the accused in 1981. And in her plaint she says that she had been been tolerating the tortures since then. Her husband is employed with a private firm. She did not complaint before and kept keep mum in order to save her marriage.
She said, on Sunday, she asked for money from her husband to buy medicines. “He got irked and began abusing me. I told him not to abuse as I needed money not for my medicines but also to buy some household stuff,” she said in the complaint.
The woman alleged that her husband kept abusing her for asking for money and as she told him not to abuse her, he began thrashing her. She said, “As my daughter was present at the home, she rescued me from my husband and took me to police to lodge a complaint against him.”
The woman alleged before the Vejalpur police that her husband and in-laws began harassing her soon after her marriage.
She alleged that her in-laws had often provoked her husband that she did not know household chores and could not make good food after which he used to thrash her badly.
The woman also alleged in the FIR that her husband had earlier abandoned her and left her at her parents’ home. As she wanted to keep the marriage intact she returned back. Finally, she along with support of her daughter approached the Vejalpur police and filed a complaint of domestic violence against her husband.
