Wife and her family harrasing my family. What can I do to defend my family?
I am from Telangana and I have been in an arranged marriage from almost 7 years, but it has been a disaster. My wife is manipulative and if I don't do as she wants, she stops eating, she threatens with killing herself and she threatens with making complains at police for cruelty. For 6 years I almost obeyed to her demands and it affected me physically and mentally. She is violent and aggressive, same as her family members.
So one day I could not take more and I left the house and I have been away for 7 months. I told her that I need time for thinking and initially she came with all her threatens, even to leave our daughter in an orphanage, don't tell any one and kill herself then.
My life has no peace beside her or far from her. Now since I am in other city, she has started harassing my family, she has gone to the CI of my town and put a complain against my mother and sisters , but not against me. She is saying that my sisters took her gold and also sent me far from her, which is not true. She has all her gold and no one knew when I left. I actually did not even communicated with my family for months. And she has said to every one that her husband always treated nicely and she had a very happy marriage.
Additionally, my wife and her family has gone to visit my inherited land and have threatened the maintenance worker that if he collects the crops or do any work in the land, he will be added to the complain against my family.
Because of this situation, I totally stopped calling her and we have crossed few emails. Her brother has sent emails with threatens saying he is going to make my family cry and life impossible until I come back to live "happily" with her and that is what he is doing.
Almost every day the CI call my family to come and inform if they have spoken to me. The complain has not been filed, but the CI is saying that they have authority to register my land in the name of my daughter and wife. Well it seams that now they only want my land and not even me.
I want to file for divorce with the hope that all these harassment stop and that I can start to see a better life. But to file for divorce I have to wait until one year is completed.
What can I do to make her family stop harassing my family? My mother has been very affected and her health is not well because of all these issues.
I don't want to come back because I know my wife is going to start threatening again and the problem will grow more. I will come back after the year is completed and I can speak about the divorce.
What can I do? Is there any legal way to defend my family?
Asked 5 years ago in Family Law
Religion: Hindu
Thanks all for your answers. My wife never wanted to move and live in my mother house, so all the time we were at her parents house. So she is with her parents. My question now is: do her or her family have rights to give instructions or directions to the land manager while I am absent? My mother has always handled all related to the family land, I have never interfered, despite it is in my name. Do they have any right during my absence and is my wife entitled to over ride on my mother's instructions to the manager?
Asked 5 years ago