Here are pdfs of news items that detail the tricks that will be played on NRIs to settle marital disputes. In all cases, the parents/siblings and relatives will be arrested and held until the NRI or his family coughs up the cash. Every agency/person involved in “settling” the dispute allegedly gets a cut of the settlement. The articles posted below are old news items, but this is the common pattern followed in almost all cases.
- NRI Kolkota Case
- NRI NYC Case
- NRI’s Sister Jailed To Extort 40Lakhs. Indira Jaising Allegedly Acted As The Enabler
NRIs are being painted as crooks and monsters who marry innocent girls and dump them. The reality and statistics speak otherwise. The reality is that like most things, there are a few cads who do these things, but they represent a minuscule minority and are not representative of the true picture. More NRIs are being take for a ride than the other way round. NRIs are picked on as they have no real voice in India and the picture of an abandoned bride creates an emotional response that is used by the radical Indian feminists to advance their agenda.
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Sad to see so many Non Resident Indians marriages falling apart!
The Indian Government should have a strict warning to NRI’s before they marry in India about IPC 498a.
But then this my be counter productive, as many will not only stop getting married in India to Indian women but also stop the Massive investment and cash flow, which the government so requires. Imagine how many Crores of rupee’s will stop flowing if just a mere 10% of NRI’s stop sending money to India?
Hi,
I am one of the victims of misuse of Indian tradition of a ” good wife - good daughter - in law”. Using these punch statements, my husband and mother - in - law tried to force me not to have any contact with my family in India, stop any connections with my sibblings and branding my parents as theives and using badwords on them, that they dont give enough money and gifts, and that me or my family are good for nothing - a series of sufferings for 8 full months - EVERYDAY. A good daughter in law and a good wife is supposed to take all this silently, apart from being beaten up by husband, not just out of his own will, but from his mother’s “mis-guidance”( his terminology during later apologies).
While there are women who are mis-using 498 A, it is a revolution against Hindu in-laws who are mis-using tradition in the first place. When a girl who is educated, employed is herself treated with this, no wonder the girl parties are resorting to using whatever the law has to offer. While the former is misuse of law, the latter is mis-use of conscience. I think the concept of mis-use is in human nature itself. Not necessarily a particular group of people.
I have two best girl friends who have a baby, and have gone through similar sequence - both of them being highly educated and from well-to do families, and both beaten up during their pregnancies !!!! Please do not say that most NRI guys are being taken on a ride. Reality is different for different people. Thanks to the 498 A for women like me - it has helped me re-gain my self-esteem that I am not alone, and that the law DOES NOT ask the woman to be walked over in the name of “Good wife - good daughter in law”. It has done good to me and my friends, not anyway close in extorting money,(None of us three friends have gained anything financially) but at a much higher level.
Look around and you will see tonns of such cases, especially in the middle class families. Choose to close your eyes and ears - you will be making a judgement far from ‘reality’.