I cannot stop thinking about this physically challenged man and his wife even two years after I did a piece on them. Read on.
Love yarn spins trouble for physically challenged
Love yarn is spinning trouble for a 30-year-old physically challenged man whose 22-year-old wife wants to marry her paramour, even as his family has appealed to the police to come to their rescue.
The victim’s father has asked the police to stop her from taking such an extreme step on the plea that it would “set a wrong precedence in society.”
In his complaint to the SSP, he has further claimed that her paramour was visiting his house in their absence to meet her and this was posing a threat to his security. The SP (City), Mr R.K. Jaiswal, has referred the case to the marital disputes cell.
For Sukhdev Singh (not his real name), who has impaired speech by birth, the handicap had never inflicted such a wound which he got when he learnt that his wife had already “parted ways with him.”
Life has not been fair to Surjeet Kaur (not her real name), as being the illiterate daughter of her parents, she was married to a physically challenged man. “It was out of compulsion that I married him. Now, I do not want to stay with him and want to marry my lover,” she said adding that she was facing pressure from all quarters and she was also being tortured. She has been married for over a year.
She was a divorcee and this match was struck through a common friend. All went well until some months ago when she came in contact with an employee in the workshop of her father-in-law. The two started meeting and fell in love with each other.
Her father-in-law terminated the services of the employee after he came to know about the relationship. Her paramour allegedly kept calling her on the phone and would drop in at their house when she was alone.
“We could not keep a check on her all the time. How can you stop an adult from doing something which you think is wrong? I counselled her several times but she is insisting on marrying him,” said her father-in-law, a retired government employee.
Unable to express himself due to the handicap, Sukhdev Singh stares blankly at the walls. “Life has always been unkind to him. He will not be able to bear this jolt,” said his father.
“I love my paramour. I want to be with him. I married out of compulsion. I know my step will hurt my husband but what should I do? Am I supposed to be a sacrificial goat?” she asks her father-in-law.