NRI man booked for cyber crime against wife

A matrimonial dispute between a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) from Ahmedabad and his wife, from 
Gurgaon in Haryana, hit cyberspace after the husband allegedly created a website by the name of his wife and posted photos and other evidence on it, alleging that he was tortured by her. Taking objection to this, the woman has registered a cyber-offence with Gurgaon police against her husband under the provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act.

Based on the complaint, Gurgaon police had issued a look-out notice against the husband who was recently detained for a few hours at Ahmedabad International Airport and was let go with a condition not to leave India.

The NRI is Raj Trivedi from Ahmedabad and his wife is Bhavna Sachdev. They married in August 2009 after connecting on a matrimonial website. Trivedi is an NRI settled at Houston in the United States and he has been into the business of commodities.

According to Trivedi, after a short span of married life, they had started to have disputes which resulted in Bhavna lodging a criminal complaint of dowry, domestic violence and harassment against him, his parents and sister. He also added that a litigation related to the complaint is pending before Punjab & Haryana High Court as the court has sent it for mediation.

In the matrimonial dispute, Bhavna has accused Raj, his parents and his sister of dowry, domestic violence and harassment. Whereas, Raj has alleged that his wife is after his property by defrauding him.

After the dowry complaint registered against him, Raj had created a website by the name of his wife and posted all the 'evidence' in his possession against her on the website. Taking strong objection, Bhavna booked him under IT Act, on February 1.

Bhavna, in her complaint, has stated that the act of Raj has invaded her privacy and accused him of libel and defamation. She further stated that Raj has posted documents on those cases which are still running in court. “During this event he has repeatedly tortured and threatened me that he will try to defame me publicly by putting my picture/information on internet and now he has actually done this...,” she added in the complaint.

Following the complaint, the website has been made unavailable on the internet.

Raj, on his part for creating the website, said, “In the dowry complaint, the police was not treating me fairly, was harassing me and I was fearing for my life. And so, I posted that material on website to let my family members and friends know about the evidence in the case in case something happens to me. Also, I wanted to send out a warning message to people about the dangers of entering into a marriage through internet.”

When contacted by The Indian Express in connection with the case, Bhavna refused to comment saying it is not right for her to speak on a matter that is sub-judice.