TNN | Mar 3, 2012, 12.41AM IST
SURAT: A reason as flimsy as "weak eyesight" cited by her husband and his family members is threatening to break the marriage of a woman in the city.
On Friday, acting on the woman's complaint, police arrested her husband and his four family members including the parents and his sisters, for allegedly mentally torturing the woman for almost one year.
The woman, Pooja Zhaveri, has alleged that her husband Rinkesh and his parents are using her weak eyesight as a pretext for demanding dowry from her parents.
Pooja's eyesight, which was already weak, got even more affected after she suffered from dengue last year.
She has alleged in the complaint that her in-law and husband harassed her by passing unsavoury remarks about her weak eyesight.
On February 24, Rinkesh and his family asked her to leave the house and said they wanted a divorce.
Ramesh Kadiwala, her father said, "Her family had started demanding an industrial shed, which I own in Khatodara, GIDC. When I refused, they started asking for money on every other occasion. When I did not comply, they started making all kinds of remarks about her weak eyesight and said that she is blind. They forcibly sent her back to us on February 24."
Kadiwala said that he along with other community members also tried to strike truce with her in-law. "But, in the end, I had to take my daughter to the police station as they were just not willing to compromise. They want a divorce at any cost."
Talking to TOI, Pooja said, "I don't want divorce at any cost. I would like to go back and live with my husband and family. Had something happened to my husband's eyesight, would I have left him? Instead I would care for him better."
Pooja, a resident of Zanda Sheri of Sagrampura area, was married to Rinkesh on May 25, 2010. Rinkesh's family is involved in powerloom business.
"It is basically a domestic dispute and we tried solving it by talking to both the parties. She has weak eyesight but that doesn't mean you throw her out of the house. Her husband and other family members just don't want to accept her back," said Krishna Dabhi, women's police inspector, investigating the case.
Besides Rinkesh, police arrested his father Govind Jhaveri, 58, mother Kokila, 57, and sisters Amisha and Vaishali under IPC sections 498, 504, 323 and 114 along with the sections under the Dowry Act. They were presented in the court in the evening.
Kadiwala said, "We are ready for the compromise but that compromise is not divorce. My daughter going happily to her house and living with her family and husband is what we want."
Pooja Zhaveri has alleged that her husband and his parents are using her weak eyesight as a pretext for demanding dowry from her parents. Pooja's eyesight, which was already weak, got even more affected after she suffered from dengue last year.
On Friday, acting on the woman's complaint, police arrested her husband and his four family members including the parents and his sisters, for allegedly mentally torturing the woman for almost one year.
The woman, Pooja Zhaveri, has alleged that her husband Rinkesh and his parents are using her weak eyesight as a pretext for demanding dowry from her parents.
Pooja's eyesight, which was already weak, got even more affected after she suffered from dengue last year.
She has alleged in the complaint that her in-law and husband harassed her by passing unsavoury remarks about her weak eyesight.
On February 24, Rinkesh and his family asked her to leave the house and said they wanted a divorce.
Ramesh Kadiwala, her father said, "Her family had started demanding an industrial shed, which I own in Khatodara, GIDC. When I refused, they started asking for money on every other occasion. When I did not comply, they started making all kinds of remarks about her weak eyesight and said that she is blind. They forcibly sent her back to us on February 24."
Kadiwala said that he along with other community members also tried to strike truce with her in-law. "But, in the end, I had to take my daughter to the police station as they were just not willing to compromise. They want a divorce at any cost."
Talking to TOI, Pooja said, "I don't want divorce at any cost. I would like to go back and live with my husband and family. Had something happened to my husband's eyesight, would I have left him? Instead I would care for him better."
Pooja, a resident of Zanda Sheri of Sagrampura area, was married to Rinkesh on May 25, 2010. Rinkesh's family is involved in powerloom business.
"It is basically a domestic dispute and we tried solving it by talking to both the parties. She has weak eyesight but that doesn't mean you throw her out of the house. Her husband and other family members just don't want to accept her back," said Krishna Dabhi, women's police inspector, investigating the case.
Besides Rinkesh, police arrested his father Govind Jhaveri, 58, mother Kokila, 57, and sisters Amisha and Vaishali under IPC sections 498, 504, 323 and 114 along with the sections under the Dowry Act. They were presented in the court in the evening.
Kadiwala said, "We are ready for the compromise but that compromise is not divorce. My daughter going happily to her house and living with her family and husband is what we want."
Pooja Zhaveri has alleged that her husband and his parents are using her weak eyesight as a pretext for demanding dowry from her parents. Pooja's eyesight, which was already weak, got even more affected after she suffered from dengue last year.
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