The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Union government's reply to a plea for laying down guidelines for police, immigration department and Indian embassies around the world for speedy justice for women abandoned by their NRI husband.
A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian issued notice on the PIL by NGO, Pravasi Legal Cell.
The plea filed through advocate Jose Abraham raised the challenges faced by women in NRI marriages, where they are abandoned by the husband before being taken to the foreign country of his residence.
It claimed in several instances where after a quick engagement, followed by a massive wedding and a huge dowry, the NRI husband flied out of India while the wife waited for her visa. In many other cases, the woman would have already got pregnant when the husband left, as a consequence both -- her and the child (who was born later) -- were abandoned.
The plea also raised another issue where women after marriage were taken to the foreign country, and later abandoned there.
The top court, which has been examining similar pleas since 2019, put up the matter for consideration in July.