New Delhi: The daughter-in-law of retired Madras high court judge, Justice Nooty Rammohan Rao, has alleged that she is under pressure from the family to withdraw cases of dowry and harassment against them, according to a report in the Hindu.

In a shocking video, the victim, Sindhu Sharma, can be seen being assaulted by members of the family. She has said that she also has video clips showing the retired judge and other family members attempting to delete video footage of her assault from the digital recording cameras connected to the house. She has said that she will release those video clippings if required.

The victim’s father further alleged that the retired judge had exerted pressure on him and his daughter to withdraw the criminal case filed at the Hyderabad Central Crime Station. The victim’s father also alleged that the retired judge had “even offered a huge sum” to him to get his daughter to drop the charges and restrain her from making any adverse statements in court.

The father also alleged that certain middlemen and politicians had also tried to intervene in the case and had attempted to persuade him to accept the deal offered by the former judge.

After these attempts to persuade the victim’s family failed, the victim’s husband and the former judge Rao’s son Vasista moved the Nampally family court for a divorce.

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The victim’s father, M.V. Sharma, said that recent developments involving the court notice for a divorce had disturbed his daughter even more. “Actually my daughter had hopes of reunion and reconciliation,” Sharma said.

Sindhu Sharma, who is married to former Madras high court judge Rao’s son Vasista, filed a police complaint on April 26 against her husband, the judge and his wife Lakshmi. On Saturday, visuals of the former judge and his family assaulting the daughter-in-law have emerged.

Justice Ramamohana Rao was a judge in the Hyderabad and Madras high courts and had retired in 2017.

The video showed all three accused assaulting her, even as the victim’s daughters were in the same room. Sharma told The News Minute that her husband had assaulted her and demanded a dowry from her on multiple occasions.

The victim alleged that she had been harassed by her husband and in-laws right after her she got married on August 2, 2012. “However, I had not made it a big issue. But the physical and mental torture increased after I gave birth to two kids,” she said, speaking to the Hindustan Times.

The victim also told the media that she had not released the video publicly before in the hopes of reaching a settlement and had decided to release the visuals only after her husband Vasista initiated divorce proceedings.

The video clip tweeted by the victim was actually recorded on April 20 on the surveillance cameras installed in the former judge’s house.