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Woman retracts statement

NEW DELHI: A woman who married against the wishes of her parents last year retracted her statement recorded before a Metropolitan Magistrate here in support of her husband and informed the Delhi High Court on Monday that she did not want to stay with the husband.

The woman appeared before the Court and made her stand clear during the hearing of a habeas corpus petition filed by her husband alleging that his father-in-law was keeping his wife in illegal confinement. He had asked the Court to pass directions to the Delhi police to produce her before it.

When her husband present in the Court insisted that the marriage was solemnised between the two, the woman said she was not in her proper mental state at the time of the wedding.

The Court later disposed of the petition saying that the petitioner could use legal remedies available to him against his wife.

The Court had last week summoned the Station House Officer of the Mayapuri police station to reply to the allegation of the petitioner, who is a resident of the same area.

The petitioner had moved the Court after his wife sent him a message saying her father had fixed her marriage with another person on June 30. The couple had eloped in June last year and later got married. However, when the father of the woman came to know about the elopement, he lodged a case of kidnapping against the petitioner.

The police later arrested the petitioner and recovered the woman. However, a lower court had later set the petitioner free when the woman in her statement submitted before the Metropolitan Magistrate said that she had gone with him of her own will.

Later they started living together as a couple. One day the father went to his daughter and persuaded her to come home along with him saying that he had no objection to her getting married with the petitioner.

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