Mumbai: A court in Mumbai has sentenced a father-in-law to three years in jail for sexually assaulting his daughter-in-law. While pronouncing the sentence, the court also said that if there was any laxity towards the offender over the incident, it would send a wrong message to society. The verdict was pronounced by the Mazgaon Magistrate Court in Mumbai. According to the daughter-in-law, she got married on November 8, 2020. She had anaemia. After marriage, the in-laws told the daughter-in-law that they were unable to get her treated. So she went to live at her parents' house.
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On May 15, 2021, the woman's husband brought her back to her in-laws' house from her maternal home. The woman said she was working in the kitchen the next day after returning to her maternal home. Her husband was in the hall. The woman's mother-in-law and sister-in-law were offering namaz. Because of this, the father-in-law came to her. The father-in-law blamed the daughter-in-law for the dispute in the house. He told that he had gone to a Tantrik and the Tantrik has given him something that will cure everything. The father-in-law said that the Tantrik has told a vidya, according to which, the daughter-in-law will have to eat the father-in-law's half-eaten food for 5 days. Along with this, the father-in-law said that the daughter-in-law will also have to do some obscene acts with him. Due to this, the father-in-law also started doing obscene acts with the daughter-in-law. When the daughter-in-law scolded him, he left the kitchen.
The woman told this to her husband, but the husband said that he would talk about it later. The mother-in-law and sister-in-law also did not listen to her and threw her out of the house. Thereafter, the daughter-in-law decided to approach the court. Due to the hearing in the court, the father-in-law refused the charge of doing obscene acts with the daughter-in-law. The father-in-law counter-accused the daughter-in-law of pressuring his son to stay away from the family. The court also examined a witness. The witness said he had spoken to the woman's father-in-law about it. Then the father-in-law said that he had talked to the daughter-in-law about sexual relations with his son. The court observed that the woman knew before marriage that she was going to a joint family. Then the question arises that why would she make such allegations against the father-in-law, which would also harm her character. The court refused to accept the arguments of the offender. The court came to the conclusion that the criminal father-in-law used criminal force on the victim. So he was sentenced to 3 years.
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