Legal remedy for mental torture

As you have no complaint against your husband and you have separate kitchen for your family, my suggestion is not to disturb your position.  Just ignore your MIL's remarks and her attitude towards you.  If you resort any legal remedy like invoking domestic violence Act, you are forced to make your husband also a party and the relief you want, courts cannot provide.  At the most the court can arrange for your separate kitchen in matrimonial home, which your husband already arrange.  The court cannot restrain your mother-in-law not to gossip badly about you in the neighbourhood.  So forget legal methods and try to ignore her and concentrate to have harmonious family life with your husband and daughter.

Mam, 

If you want to continue your marraige then better is not to file any case against the husband and inlaws, otherwise you can file a case under section 498A depending upon the facts and circumstances of the case. 

Warm Regards 

Kapil Chandna Advocate 

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Originally posted by : Mousumi
	Got married in 2009. My husband is self-employed and we stay  with his parents. From the very beginning my in-laws, particularly  my MIL was not fond of me. She did not like anythying I did. She used to pass remarks which are derogatory to me. It lead to  lots of fights between us. My husband, initially supported me, then he changed his mind and does not support me anymore. I stopped communicating with my in laws since last couple years. Now, though we stay in the same house, I have a separate kitchen. My MIL still countinues with her nature and does not leave a single  opportunity to say bad things to her neighbours and near relatives. I am constantly under a great deal of mental stress due to this. My husband does not want to leave this house and arrange for a separate accomodation for me. He helds my parents responsible for  this and antagonize them. I am not workling and having a four year old  son. What legal remedy is availble to me? If said that he will be  punished for these, my husband says, he did not commit any crime towards me and is not afraid at all. Is it so? Can he (and his parents) get away by doing all these to me and my parents for all these years?

You went to their house, so you need to follow their rules, the more you protest, the more trouble your marriage will be.

If you want to stay married, which I believe is the sole reason your parents got you married for, then adjust with circumstances.  

There is no legal remedy for the problems stated by you.  Any legal measure will only lead to divorce and your child will grow fatherless and you will have to find some substitute for your husband in case you take divorce, which is a impossible task as ppl dont prefer women with baggage and that too you dont have any job, you will be left with looking at the sky(court) seeking alimony for yourself and the kid which you might get or not get, but what you surely will get is a long legal battle where nobody will get nothing.

I hope your parents have educated you this much to decide what is right and what is wrong.  May you not become a headache for your parents and the society at large is my wish.

Find some job.  Idle mind is devil's workshop.

Agree with above advice, find a job, dont sit idle.  Idle mind is unwanted workshop/headacheshop etc etc.

Nobody's life is perfect. If u have a good husband then please do not resort to any legal remedies at this point. Unless ur husband neglects you pls remember he needs his parents also in his life and they came into his life before u entered his.

Just IGNORE IGNORE the stunts of ur MIL, once u stop reacting she will also slow down. Also its a fact of life....how long will the MIL live for, its ur husband and kid that comprises your future. All the Best !!