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AHMEDABAD: A 29-year-old woman approached city police after her husband refused to take her to the US even seven years after their wedding.

The complainant alleged that her husband, a software engineer, went to the US in February 2012, three months after their wedding in November 2011 but he never tried to enable her to settle there with him. She alleged that whenever she asked to go to the US, he threatened to divorce her.

According to the FIR, the woman left her husband’s home in 2013 because of his continuously ignoring her wish to settle in the US and returned to her her father’s place in Dholka town of Ahmedabad district. She was later forced to return to her in-laws’ place in the Bopal area of the city on the advice of community elders, after the man promised to take her to the US.

That year, the complainant’s husband took her to the US for a month, but after she conveived there, he sent her back to India saying he wouldn’t be able to look after her during the pregnancy.

The woman gave birth to their first child, a daughter, in 2014, but her husband did not come to India to see the girl till 2016. When he finally came, he stayed for a month and left the woman and their child in India.

After this, in 2016, the woman filed complaint with Dholka police station but was forced to reach a compromise on the advice of community elders, again on the condition was that her husband would take her to US.

“This January, her husband lost everything in a casino in the US and returned to India. When she went to his place, her husband and his parents did not allow her and her daughter to stay at their home and assaulted her. After this, the woman waited for eight months hoping that her husband would approach her. As he did not heed his wife’s wish to take her to the US and the settle there, she filed a complaint again with Dholka police station,” said a police official

PI L B Tadvi of Dholka police station said the husband and in-laws had taken Rs 15.30 lakh from the complainant and as he did not take her with him, she was within her rights in filing a complaint against him. Tadvi said the husband and in-laws were booked for domestic violence but have not been arrested yet.

