Lens on NRIs who desert wives in India |
The government of India is proposing changes in the code of criminal procedure (CrPC) to declare “absconders” the NRI husbands who abandon their wives in India and fail to honour court summons in the case thrice. It has also proposed that the husbands’ and their parents’ properties in India be attached. The ministry of women and child development is also seeking a change in the CrPC to allow filing of complaints of child sexual abuse years after the crime or even after the survivors have become adults. This would require a change in the limitation provisions applicable. The external affairs ministry has written to the ministries of law and home to consider the proposed amendments in the CrPC pertaining to court summons. It has been seen that the NRI husbands who abandon their wives keep evading court summons. If this change comes through in CrPc, then it will not be possible to do so. After three summons it will be considered that the man is absconding and his name is proposed to be added to a list of absconders on the MEA website, minister Maneka Gandhi said.
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