‘Duped’ by NRI husband, woman files complaint
Thursday, 31/01/2013
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LUDHIANA: A woman has filed a complaint with the police here alleging that her NRI husband got a divorce from her in a Canadian court by using forged documents while she was pursuing a case of dowry harassment against him and her in-laws in India, police said on Monday.
“Jasdip Singh Sekhon, a divorced man, promised Charanjit Kaur (complainant) that he would take her to Canada.
“But he left her at his parents’ house before leaving a month after the wedding. Later, Charanjit’s in-laws began harassing her for dowry,” a senior police official said.
Fed up with the harassment, Charanjit filed a dowry harassment case against her husband and in-laws in a local court.
However, later she received a communication from Canada that she and Jasdip have been granted divorce by a court of that country.
“I did not even know that a divorce case was filed in a Canadian court. It came as a shock to me and my parents.
“On inquiry, we came to know that a man called Sukhvir Singh, a resident of Chet Nagar village in Ludhiana, had filed a fake affidavit seeking divorce on my behalf.
“I did not even receive a court notice, which is mandatory in divorce cases,” Charanjit said.
She added: “We have been duped by Jasdip and his relatives. He has also been declared proclaimed offender by a Ludhiana court in the dowry harassment case in March 2010.”
Police said that Charanjit, who is in her late twenties, is a resident of Kaunke Kalan village in Ludhiana.
