She left him because, she said, he and his family were torturing her for dowry. Five years later, the husband has gone to court asking for ‘restitution of conjugal rights’. In court the judge noted the woman wasn’t wearing sindoor, which is the ‘religious duty of a married woman’. Go back to your husband, he ordered.
This isn’t the plot of a lurid potboiler. These are proceedings in a family court in Indore this past week where principal judge N.P. Singh noted: “She has forsaken her husband. She is not wearing the sindoor.”
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