Case against in-laws for not giving promised assets to woman

Case against in-laws for not giving promised assets to woman

TNN | Dec 19, 2020, 04.32 AM IST

Madurai: The Karupayurani police have registered a case against the in-laws of a woman whose husband, affected by AIDS, died by suicide. The 25-year-old woman in her complaint had accused her late husband’s parents and siblings of going back on their promise and refusing to give her their property.

According to the FIR registered on Thursday, the in-laws had hidden the fact that their son was affected by HIV and got her married to him in September, 2016. The woman, who came to know about it at a later stage questioned her husband and his parents for hiding it from her. They apologised to her and also promised to give her a share of their property.

Since she was pregnant she had gone to her parent’s place. Meanwhile, on March 10, 2017, her husband committed suicide by self-immolation. The woman claimed that her in-laws did not inform her about her husband’s death and even after three years they had not kept the promise of giving her their property.

Based on the directions of the additional mahila court, the in-laws who are residents of Varichur were booked under sections 498(a) (husband or his relative subjecting woman to cruelty), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) and 417 (punishment for cheating) of the IPC.