Nidhi
New Member
Now-a-Days women of India are going through another kind of Physical and mental pressure especially the women of Punjab, Gujarat and women of Haryana are facing mental trauma where incidences of fraudulent NRI marriages are Increasing. Every month 100s of cases are being reported in the Indian media. The National women Commission receives 100s of complaints from Indian woman abroad duped or duped by their Non resident Indian or working abroad husbands. There are 100s of others languishing in their villages waiting for the call from Abroad that never comes. NRI brides are forced to put up with lying , False promises ,cheating and unreasonable demands of dowry ,desertion and abduction of children. According to National Commission for women there are nearly 16,000 women deserted by NRIs in Indians state of Punjab alone. State Gujarat with a substantial Non Resident Indian population also has a quite large number of battered women in need of help. Indian Women become more vulnerable in the foreign country often without any family and financial support. They have no one to turn at the time of crisis.
The decision of Overseas Affairs ministry to appoint volunteers in nations with a high density of PIOs and Non resident Indians to carry out check of the grooms settled abroad has remained just on paper. With globalization the number of Non Resident Indian-Indian marriages is on the rise. It is sometimes impossible for the woman's relatives or parents in India to verify the credentials of the NRI grooms.Indian Police and Indian law enforcing agencies in India need to be more sympathetic in dealing with them. Reporting FIR must be made easy for the victims from the influential families. The Indian government needs to bring in some kind of regulation to ensure that all the protection accorded by the Indian law to women of India with regard to NRI-Indian marriage, divorce, maintainence , inheritance and custody of children.
The decision of Overseas Affairs ministry to appoint volunteers in nations with a high density of PIOs and Non resident Indians to carry out check of the grooms settled abroad has remained just on paper. With globalization the number of Non Resident Indian-Indian marriages is on the rise. It is sometimes impossible for the woman's relatives or parents in India to verify the credentials of the NRI grooms.Indian Police and Indian law enforcing agencies in India need to be more sympathetic in dealing with them. Reporting FIR must be made easy for the victims from the influential families. The Indian government needs to bring in some kind of regulation to ensure that all the protection accorded by the Indian law to women of India with regard to NRI-Indian marriage, divorce, maintainence , inheritance and custody of children.