Haryana youth offers to sell organs to pay off wife
KOLKATA, 6 JUNE: A youth from Haryana wrote to the President of India
seeking his approval to sell his organs to pay his wife who had
allegedly filed a "false" dowry case against him. The matter is now
under consideration of the National Human Rights Commission.
Mr
Sunil Kumar (in sns photo), a resident of Fatehgarh in Haryana, married
on 26 June in 2009. A year after his marriage, his wife brought dowry
harassment charges against him and asked him to pay maintenance.
According
to Sunil, his wife brought "false" charges against him for monetary
gain. Though he collected proof against the false claims through RTI
application, it was ignored by the local court, he alleged in his letter
to the President.
Sunil wrote the letter in May this year to the
President explaining his financial constraints and how he is
overburdened with loans. He said in his letter that since he is
unemployed and has nothing to sell to pay the maintenance to his wife,
he would like to sell his organs.
"Please permit mercy killing
(euthanasia) for me and sell my body parts and organs so that my wife
receives her maintenance," he wrote. The matter is now before the
National Human Rights Commission.
Talking to The Statesman from
Haryana, Sunil said that after his wife filed "false" dowry case against
him in 2010 she "continuously blackmailed me to pay her Rs 10 lakh to
settle the matter." Expressing his poor financial condition he
surrendered to the police on 9 August 2010 and spend two days in
judicial custody.
"But that was the beginning of our suffering.
The judge even after knowing my mother's poor health sent her to
judicial custody for four days. My mother who was discharged from
hospital after a major tumour operation suffered paralysis after
spending four days in Hawalati ward without medicine, food and proper
care," Sunil said.
He said that in spite of bringing the facts
with relevant proofs before the court, the judge did not consider them.
"I even submitted evidence against the false charges collected through
RTI Act. But even after her false claims without any evidence she got
order in her favour," Sunil said. "But now I hope justice will be given
as the matter is taken up by the NHRC. Otherwise, I don't have any
option other than selling my organs to pay my wife," he added.
Mr
Amarty Talukdar of Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), said that
extortion of money by abusing the dowry law is now rampant in India. "We
are daily flooded with complaints from husbands who are falsely charged
by their wives often to get financial advantage. The government should
act now to stop its misuse," he added.
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