CASE 3:

Mis-use of 498A/406 IPC and DV Act

* I Radha and my husband are senior citizens. My husband is retired  and his paltry pension is the only source of his income. We own a small house at Rohini which he built in 1990 ,after taking loan and with his own savings. We are not allowed to live in our house by our elder daughter-in-law .

 * I have two sons and both are married. My elder son married Kanti in 1995. She was qualified, Bed. NTT  teachers training . My husband permitted the couple to stay at the first floor whereas I lived at the ground floor with my husband and the younger son. Life was quite peaceful  till nov. 2000. The couple was also blessed with two children. My elder son was doing a job at Noida at that time. Commuting between Rohini to Noida daily with quite unmanageable working hours was a harrowing job for my son. Feeling so, he tried to prevail upon his wife to shift to Noida. He also realized upon her as to how he was missing his two children by his early leaving home in the morning and coming home quite late at night, but his wife was too adamant to listen to this problem. This stressful daily routine was also telling upon his health but his wife did not move her stand. Not only this his wife started creating problems at home and misbehaved with family membersincluding with her newly wedded Devrani.

   * Futhermore, she planned a strategy in collusion with her brother and parents to implicate the entire family of her in-laws in the false and base less court cases. Her intention has all been to have control and occupation of the house of her father-in-law at Rohini. Initially, she called up the police one night on cooked up charges. But when she thought, it was not enough, she lodged false reports.

* Sensing her nefarious trends, my younger son shifted to Gurgaon along with his wife. He also took us ( I and my husband ) to his rented house in May 2001.

* But she had no peace with her husband also and as a result he was also force to shift from Rohini. Mean while she filed a false case against all the five members of the family (husband , father-in-law, mother-in-law, dewar and his wife ) u/s 498 a/406 IPC in October 2001. Elder son lost the job due to Dowry case. All the family members are finally on bail now. She also implicated the members of the family in some other false and frivolous cases.

  *  Finding that Kanti is in no mood to reside and settle with my son, her husband and her two children (living & studying at Mohali, Pb.) who are in the permanent custody of their father and also feeling quite grieved and frustrated at her style of  mindset and behavior, my husband went to the court to get decree of eviction of the house at Rohini and thereby restoring the possession of the house  to my husband which Kanti my daugter-in-law has been in illegal occupation. Several years have passed, but I still can not live in my house.  

  *  It is a case of brutal cruelty and victimization of innocent parents-in-law and family member at the hands of none other than their own daughter-in-law who has avowed to humiliate and harm her own husband, two small children, keep the innocent and aged parents-in-laws shelterless and torture the entire family members. She did not spare even her newly wedded Devrani and Dewar. We both husband  and wife are both old and are patients and suffering from health problems.

How can these Laws be called women Laws , if 1 women distroys lifes of say 4 women.  Old persons like me, my granddaughter, my younger daughter-in-lay, even my elder daughter-in-law’s sisters wedding prospects is effected, as society is afraid of a women whose family has filed these Laws.

Harish & Radha,

Senior Citizens, Old Age Couple

S.A.S. Nagar, Near Chandigarh.

( Some names have been changed )