An Ahmedabad woman has narrated her experience of unabated torture at the hands of an insanely
A passerby called 181 Abhayam, the helpline for women. Geetaben revealed her story to the counsellors, speaking of her unceasing attempts to douse the flames of her husband’s suspicions, which choked her self-esteem and freedom.
Their life together was smooth. It was only last year that her partner’s suspicions became overpowering. “After I had my teeth removed and stopped working, he suspected that I was seeing somebody at home,” she said.“He got opaque plastic sheets pasted on the windows and doors so that nobody can see inside.”
The last straw was the man’s insistence that he accompany him as he drove the auto. “He would make me sit next to him the whole day as he ferried passengers,” she said. “I had be become his prisoner,” Geetaben said.
The counsellors summoned the man. “We told him that there was no cure for suspicion. The woman said that she loved him and did not want to press charges,” said Falguni Patel, co-ordinator of the 181 helpline. “The man has submitted in writing that he will mend his ways and not curb the woman’s liberties.”