Mumbai: A 40-year-old woman from the city has submitted a complaint against her husband and her in-laws, alleged that she was forced by her husband to cancel eight times abroad because she wanted a son.
The woman was the daughter of a retired judge.
His complaint said he married a lawyer in 2007.
The member of the man’s family was a lawyer, and his brother-in-law was a doctor.
A few years after marriage, the man allegedly beat him, said he wanted a son.
In 2009, he had a baby girl.
In 2011, he was pregnant again but his husband forced him to undergo abortion, say he did not want a baby, the complaint of the woman at the Dadar Police Station.
He told the police that he made him undergo treatment towards his desire to have a child.
He said that he began to beat him for a small reason.
The defendant took Hixs’s wife abroad for a pre-implantation genetic diagnosis.
He was made to undergo a medical procedure to determine the sex of the reborn child.
For this, he allegedly made him take more than 1,500 hormone injections and steroids.
Tests and care, prohibited in India, were carried out abroad without approval and forced the pair to be canceled eight times.
“This is a case of domestic violence and is a very personal problem.
We cannot discuss or share any information because the accusation is serious …
it will not deserve to reveal the identity of the complainant or defendant,” said a police officer.
The case of abuse for dowry, attack, threatening and gender elections has been registered at the Dadar Police Station and further investigation, police said.