Imagine for a moment that your in-laws are such terrible people you have to file a case against them for violence. Then imagine you go to file said complaint only to find out your in-laws have gone to extreme measures to make sure the complaint won't really matter.
A woman in India went to do just that — file a case against her husband's family because they were violent — only to find out that her husband's brother, a lawyer, had forged a divorce for the couple ten years earlier.
Meena Verma, a mother of two children, tried to file a case against her in-laws for violence, only to be told by a court in Haryana state that she had been divorced for a decade...
"It seems the divorce was doctored to defeat Meena's possible complaint," he said. The couple filed a petition accusing Virender's brother, Surinder Verma, and four associates, of forgery. Surinder denied the accusation.
Doesn't that kind-of make you want to give your bewhiskered, over-bearing mother-in-law a big hug and kiss? No? Didn't think so, but we thought we'd ask, anyway.
[Reuters: Couple "divorced without knowledge"]