Most Indian brides abused by grooms
NEW DELHI: Sonal Agarwal says her disfigured face is a constant reminder of the most terrifying night of her life-her wedding night.
“My husband just went crazy. He said he wanted to kill me and lashed out at me with a knife and cut my face.” said Sonal, tugging a blue scarf covering her head to hide slash wounds on her left cheek.
The 22-year-old student from the north Indian city of Chandigarh thought she was heading for a prosperous new life in the West with a British-born Indian doctor after he chose her from scores of women who replied to his advert seeking a bride. But after leaving her family and homeland to live in the UK, Sonal found her new husband was a fraud. “He was mentally sick and wasn’t a doctor and didn’t have a job. His family tricked me and now my life is finished,” she said.
Women’s groups say every year hundreds of starry-eyed girls seeking a better life in the West are duped into wedlock by men of Indian origin living in the diaspora-in countries like the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia-mostly for money…
Why can’t the Hindustani men live like human beings?