Washington: A newly married Indian woman who arrived in the United States in March had run from the pillar to post over the past few weeks to get justice, accusing torture by her husband.
“My husband had left me without financial support.
I have no place to leave.
My parents in India asked for help from my father-in-law, but he demanded to marry me back in my husband’s life,” said the woman from Patna Bihar in complaints, sent To senior officials in the Indian government, India Embassy here and the consulate in San Francisco.
Anamika (name changed) has even reached by the US Department of Foreign Affairs, which issued a F-1 student visa to her husband and Freddie Mac, where he worked while on the OPT, looking for justice but did not succeed so far.
Abuse and torture reaches a point that must be called by police in their apartment in Mclain, the suburb of Virginia Washington DC on June 15.
“The police helped me get into the taxi,” he wrote in his complaint.
The local Fairfax County police have registered complaints against her husband and treat it as a criminal complaint.
“I was saved by the police because of his cruelty because of my life in danger,” he told PTI.
“I reached the United States with my husband on March 1, 2021 and began living with him in McLean, Virginia 22102.
When reaching out to the United States, my husband began committing domestic violence and demanding a dowry from my parents,” Anamica wrote in his complaint, The copy with PTI.
When approached, her husband who worked as a quantitative analytic professional in Freddie Mac, denied the allegations and told PTI that he was framed.
However, he quickly hung up when asked if he was a university student.
First, he said he was the University of Maryland campus and then the Baltimore campus, before hanging up.
In complaints, Anamika accused her husband, who has now sent a divorce call, forced her to keep the bathroom door open.
“When I used to go to the restroom, he used to make accusations that you did something to prevent pregnancy in a small room because there was no sound when using a small room.
Then he told me to keep the door open and use a small room,” he thought.
“Often, he has examined my vagina to see if I use something to prevent pregnancy.
Several times check the same thing using his cellphone flashlight and several times by using his finger and sometimes wearing gloves.
After having sex he is normal.
Shouting me that you use something to prevent pregnancy, “he thought.
Anamica, who now lives with close relatives in Seattle, has also approached several non-governmental organizations, many of them in the past have been funded by the Indian government to overcome cases of abuse of Indian women who have just married in the US.
The number of cases such has increased in the past decade, as a result of all Indian diplomatic missions in the US, a few years ago, was asked to build specific cells to overcome these cases.
“He never let me go anywhere.
I was only allowed to go to the garbage room that was on the same floor where we used to live but without my phone.
Even to the room letter he used to take me with him.
Even though I was not healthy, he was normal Forcing me to come with him, “he accused his complaint.
“One day, he made me sit on the knee on the road to apologize to him.
He is always used to harassing me by saying that once you leave it or tell anyone about torture, he will make my life miserable,” Alleged Anamics.
The South Asia Minorities Alliance Foundation said he was planning to take “abuse of girls” who were married to Indian or S Asia professionals who worked in the US at work visas with related authorities in the US, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The girls and their families were at the mercy of their husbands while living in the US,” said Puneet Ahluwalia, executive director of the South Asian minority alliance.