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For years it has been one of the (many) dirty secrets of NRI communities around the world. Successful NRI men – in an overwhelmingly majority of cases highly qualified professionals in IT, Banking and Engineering – taking their Indian wives back to India and abandoning them before returning to their lives back in the West. […]
According to a landmark judgement by the Supreme Court an estranged daughter-in-law has the right to live in her in-laws’ home and can therefore not be thrown out by her husband or his family. A three-judge bench judgement of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah overrides a two-judge verdict in S.R. Batra […]
A mother from Mumbai has spoken of her grief and feelings of helplessness and has appealed for find justice for herself and her 7-year-old daughter after her bigamist husband Shannon Machado left her in limbo in India and fled to Europe. In yet another example of arguably one of the most insidious forms of abuse […]
Dear Home Secretary, I would like to draw your attention to hidden scourge that has become ever more pervasive within the Indian community in the UK over the past few years – spousal abandonment of those especially on dependent visas. It involves men – both British citizens or settled persons of Indian origin – who marry […]
Poonam Joshi of Indian Ladies UK was invited to be part of the 4th PBD round table conference held at the Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra in New Delhi on the 5th May 2018. ‘Indian Community Organisations Working for Indian Nationals in Distressed Situation’. It was chaired by Hon. Minister of External Affairs Mrs. Sushma Swaraj and […]
Non-Resident Indians who abandon their wives in India, could have their properties confiscated under new regulations discussed by the Indian Ministry of Women and Child Development. The Indian TV news network News18 reported on Tuesday that an “inter-ministerial committee has recommended that either the properties of the husband or his relatives should be seized” in […]
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