Gujarat: Man makes wife witness to his live-in agreement

AHMEDABAD: A 21-year-old woman from a Kheda village filed a police complaint against her husband, alleging that he forced her to sign as witness to the live-in agreement he made with his girlfriend last week. The man also allegedly forced her to speak to his girlfriend so both women could live amicably with him.
In her FIR at Chaklasi police station in Kheda district, the woman, a native of Sijivada village in Matar taluka of Kheda, states that she married the accused around four years ago according to the wishes of her family members.
She further states that her husband, who worked for a private bank, had entered a relationship with another woman from Nadiad town, which she learned about on January 14.
“My husband told me that he wanted to bring his girlfriend to our home and hit me when I objected to it. After this, he forced me to talk to his girlfriend while threatening me saying he would commit suicide if I did not talk to her,” she states in the FIR.
As the complainant was pregnant, she had moved to her parents’ home in Sijwada. On May 14, she told her husband that he needed to consult her doctor in Anand town. Her husband came to her parents’ place and took her with him.
Rather than going to the doctor’s clinic, he took her to some unknown place in Vadodara. “He thrashed me and forced me to sign some document, while threatening to have my child aborted and to kill me. After I signed that document, he told me that he had made me sign his live-in agreement with his girlfriend,” she said.
After this, whenever she protested against this relationship, he thrashed her. Fed up, she approached police and filed a complaint of domestic violence and criminal intimidation against her husband.