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AHMEDABAD: A 40-year-old woman from the Raipur area of the city on Monday filed a complaint with Khadia police, alleging that her husband locked her up in their house so that he could meet his girlfriend. After being locked up for around an hour, a passerby heard her screams and broke open the lock.

In her FIR, the woman, who has two daughters, stated that she married the accused 16 years ago according to the will of her family and community and she had been suffering harassment over frivolous issues ever since.

On Sunday evening, when her husband started to get dressed, she learned that he was going to meet his girlfriend, with whom he has been in a relationship for three years. The complainant objected but he did not listen to her and locked her inside their two-storey house in Raipur.

From the window of their house, she kept screaming for help. A passerby saw her, broke open the lock and released her. As soon as she was released, she went to the house of her husband’s girlfriend in Maninagar, where she found the two together.

She first went to Maninagar police station from where she was told to approach Khadia police. She filed a complaint of domestic violence alleging that her husband used to torture her for objecting to his relationship with the other woman.

The woman also stated that her husband and in-laws tortured her for giving birth to two girls. Khadia police began an investigation into the woman’s allegations.

