Chandigarh: NRI marriage fraud is a grief too-many Punjabi families suffer as there are around 30,000 married women in Punjab who are ditched by their Non-Resident Indian husbands. What is more alarming is that out of those 30,000 deserted women, nearly 15,000 women hail from Punjab’s Doaba region alone mainly in districts: Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and SBS Nagar. Armed with a passport and a plane ticket, unscrupulous men and their families exploit the value of a green card or foreign work permit to extort exorbitant dowries from their brides. They marry and then flee.
According to National Commission for Women and the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the Passport Office has started impounding passports of NRI grooms who have deserted their wives.
For the first time in India, Passport Act has been implemented to help deserted brides with over two dozen passports of NRIs already impounded by Passport Office. A women grievance section with helpline has also been floated where deserted brides can register their complaints.
Observing the Section 10 (3) of the Passport Act, at least 50 NRIs have been issued show-cause notices before the Passport Office finally impound their passports.
According to Section 10 (3) of the Passport Act, “The regional passport officer or the issuing authority can suspend or impound the passports of such offenders in public interest after issuing a show-cause notice.”
According to Jalandhar Passport Office, the provision is proving helpful as impounding works both inside and outside the country as once the passport is impounded, one can not travel using that passport. In case if the person is in India, it would not be possible for that person to fly unless he settles his marital discord legally or mutually.
The dollar fascination with NRIs and obsession with foreign countries are high in Punjab despite the fact that NRI marriage fraud is increasing day by day in Punjab.
There are suggestions to simply the procedure for quick issuance of visa by foreign missions in India to any deserted woman to enable her to contest the proceedings filed by her NRI husband in a foreign land. Many NRIs have already been declared proclaimed offenders after they didn’t respond to show-cause notice issued by Passport Office.
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ReplyDeletecapt.,what about the women married to foreign guys,not nris,and that have been abondoned in India with children??is there legal channel/support to track/catch their fraud partners?
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