She is 30 and the mother of two daughters. But she's made allegations of assault and dowry against her husband and his family. Sindhu Sharma spoke to Brut India about the disturbing CCTV footage from their home that she claims shows her husband and his father, a retired high court judge, allegedly assaulting her.
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00:00It's 2012, August 13th, I got married.
00:04From the past six and a half years, it has been like hell to me.
00:30The demands which they have made for the marriage and before the marriage, everything was fulfilled
00:50by my daughter.
00:51Even he felt there was something difficult which he couldn't manage within.
00:55But yet, for the sake of my thinking that I'll be having a beautiful life after the marriage,
01:01so it has fulfilled all the will and wishes of the...
01:16They have beaten me so brutally, which is not recorded because we don't have cameras in that stage.
01:22And then I was unable to walk and they have admitted me into this hospital saying that
01:27they've got some preventive and better treatment.
01:30This is what they have told.
01:53They have told that I was trying to harm myself, but that was not at all the case over there.
02:00If I try to harm myself, do you think this is the way they treat me?
02:05It is very clearly seen how these people were treating me.
02:09I didn't attempt any suicide or anything.
02:12I don't have that kind of intention also because I have to love me kids.
02:17Why would I love to do it?
02:23Yes, of course they wanted my husband to get remarried thinking that I have grandchildren, two female kids.
02:30So I'm not fit to give birth to a male kid.
02:34And they want to remarry his son thinking that he will give birth to a male kid with some other girl.
02:42And that helps them to keep up the name of the Murti family.
02:47This is what their intention was.
02:50And for the additional dowry which the girl gets into the house.
03:032012 August 13th I got married.
03:06From the past six and a half years it has been like hell to me.
03:10But thinking that some or the other day my husband might definitely change
03:15and my money as well as my family will understand that God dare to make something wrong towards me.