The Madras High Court has ordered police protection to a 29-year-old woman, who left her matrimonial home here along with her two-year-old daughter following alleged dowry harassment by her in-laws, for visiting the house and retrieving her belongings including educational and medical records of her child.
The order was passed by Justice K B K Vasuki on a petition by one Bhavani who submitted that she had left behind all her belongings when she left for her mother's house in Bangalore on June 27 last.
Since she apprehended trouble if she visited the house, she had given a complaint to the Ambattur All-Women Police Station against her in-laws. The police called her husband and made inquiries but did not take any further action as her husband was influential, she charged.
The Judge directed the police to deal with the complaint given by the petitioner in the manner known to law and in the light of the direction issued by the Supreme Court in Lalita Kumari's case.
Bhavani got married in Chennai on August 22, 2010 and gave birth to a girl on June 19, 2012. She was residing with her husband and daughter in her father-in-law's house in Ambattur. Since her husband and in-laws were allegedly demanding dowry and harassing her, she spent sleepless nights and decided to return to her mother's house.
