A lady named ……… residing at sultanpur was forced to come up and speak out her heartbreaking experiences of domestic violence.
She is a home maker with 55 years of age and a mother of four (3 boys and a girl child), out of which the second son is stricken by polio. Her eldest son Israar got remarried a while back after his first unsuccessful marriage. The mother complained that her daughter-in-law Rusida manipulated her son against his own family. She would often start quarrels and fights with the family members and in the fit she would hurt some family member or threaten to take her own life. In one of the instances, inorder to stop Rusida from hitting, the second son happened to hold her hand and she bit his hand to let herself free and started waving a knife at everyone and threatened to kill herself if they came any closer. She even went to the extent of striking her old mother-in-law in her stomach four times with her foot. Rusida manipulated Israar in moving away from the family and living separately. Any kind of financial assistance to his poor family was immediately stopped.
The only source of income left in the family is the polio stricken son, who tries to earn their daily bread by doing embroidery. The mother’s major concern is that in such financial crunch how she would be able to get her only daughter married off. If that wasn’t enough, the daughter-in- law threatens to take whatever property they own also, to which her family is very supportive of. The distressed mother who has been severely hurt physically, mentally and emotionally could never imagine in her worst of the nightmares that her own son would turn against the family for no fault of theirs at all. This mother does not want to risk whatever their family is left with. Scared that her daughter-in-law being such a inhuman and irrational person, could go to any extent, the mother decided to disown her eldest son, before she could snatch away what is rightfully meant for other three children. This is a serious case of domestic violence along with coercion and extortion.
