children or me. I was not even
sure my children and I would be
safe there. My mother-in-law
even deliberately pushed down
my 4-month-old daughter from
the staircase and pretended it
was an accident. Fortunately, I
was able to hold her carry cot and
save her from harm. They never
showed any love or affection towards them.
Though I had complained to the
police station during my pregnancy about the sex determination test conducted and the pressure to have an M.T.P, I had requested them not to take any
action as I thought they would
come around and accept my
daughters.
In March 2008, my husband
threw me out in the middle of the
night, and asked me for a mutual consent divorce because
he wanted to remarry and have sons. It was during this visit
to my matrimonial house, that I came across the discharge
papers, and reports of ultrasounds done during my pregnancy (those papers had been always in the custody of my
husband).
Mine was a lonely battle to give birth to the twins in my
womb. After finding out that I was to have twin girls, my inlaws and husband seldom accompanied me for antenatal
tests or hospital visits. My mother would accompany me
for all my tests, etc. My husband would frequently fight with
me. Even in my parents’ house he would fight with me. He
even demanded that a D.N.A. should be conducted to establish the paternity of the twins because his mother had
been told by some priest that her son would have just one
son. As I was carrying two daughters, he said they could
not be his children.
On April 10, 2008, I filed a complaint to the Women’s Commission, the Health Minister, and various N.G.Os. On May
9, 2008, I filed a complaint in the P.N.D.T. Cell.
On June 5, I got a reply to an RTI application that the
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