Gujarat: Brahmin woman files case against in-laws for 'forcing' her to embrace Jainism

AHMEDABAD: A 28-year-old woman from Prahladnagar area of the city, who has been born into a Brahmin family, on Saturday lodged a police complaint, accusing her in-laws of pressurizing her to embrace Jainism.
In her FIR with Anandnagar police station, the woman, who works with a private firm, said that she married her boyfriend who was from the Jain community living in Satellite locality of the city in October 2017.Both she and her boyfriend worked together in a private firm on SG Road.
The woman said that her marriage was solemnized, according to the Hindu rituals on January 30 this year and that she had got her marriage registered on February 10.
She said that her husband got a job in Germany and had moved there on February 17. She said that her husband had promised her to take her along with him to Germany. However, he did not keep his promise and left her at her in-laws’ home in Satellite. After her husband left for Germany, her mother-in-law and father-in-law, who are teachers with different primary schools, began harassing her. The woman alleged that her in-laws would pressurize her to embrace Jainism.
Whenever she resisted, they would abuse her. When her husband returned from Germany in July, her in-laws allegedly provoked him, following which he allegedly physically assaulted her.
“The woman also alleged that her in-laws and husband made a dowry demand to buy a new house. When she refused, her husband forcibly made her sit in his car and then dropped her at her parents’ place in Prahladnagar,” said an official from Anandnagar police station, quoting the FIR.
After waiting for three months, the woman approached the police and filed a complaint under Domestic Violence Act, causing hurt, criminal intimidation and abetment along with the charges of Dowry Prohibition Act.