In a first, a Kochi woman has filed a harassment complaint with the city police against her husband alleging that he took all her savings deposit, claiming it to be her dowry. The woman has alleged that her husband refused to return the amount which she had transferred to his account when she moved from Doha to Muscat.
According to a report published, following the woman’s complaint, a case was registered at the Kalamassery station against her husband and father-in-law under IPC Sections 498A and 34.
Reportedly, the couple got married on January 31, 2020, and stayed together in Ernakulam. However, only after ten days, the woman returned to her workplace in Doha, while her husband went to Muscat.
By the end of February 2020, both returned to Ernakulam but again went back to their respective workplaces on March 1, 2020.
Later, on January 14, 2021, the woman quit her job in Doha and went to Muscat to live with her husband. She alleges that while shifting to Muscat, she had transferred her savings bank deposit of Rs 29.75 lakh into her husband’s account on the condition of getting back the amount once she opens her own bank account in Muscat. But later, her husband allegedly refused to return the amount saying it was her dowry, TNIE revealed in its report.
The woman has expressed that after much persuasion she has managed to get only ₹19 lakh from her husband and is yet to get the balance amount.
Meanwhile, the woman’s 73-year-old father-in-law, who is the second accused in the case, has availed anticipatory bail from a local court.
In his defence, he has expressed that the woman’s allegations are false. Moreover, he has termed the entire case as a pressure tactic by the woman to compel his son for a divorce by mutual consent.
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