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Follies of arranged marriage
by Rishi Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:15 pm
The court heard that the husband's mental disabilities dated back to babyhood and that he was unlikely to make any meaningful recovery.
His father, a leading figure in the British Sikh community who has since died, was the driving force behind the arranged marriage with a family from Punjab.
In 2009, the husband, now in his late 30s, was taken to the Indian region by his parents. The wife, some years his junior, was lame and the judge described them as two young people who “might otherwise have found it hard to marry”.
The woman told Mr Justice Holman she had consented to the arranged marriage as an “obedient daughter”.
She said she did not meet her husband before their wedding day and only realised that “he was not like a normal person” after the ceremony. She said they had slept together on their wedding night and on a few occasions since.
She moved to England to be closer to the man, who is cared for in a local authority home in the West Midlands, but has no recourse to public funds and works long hours as a fruit picker.
The court heard that she visits her husband several times a week and that they take pleasure in each other's company.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10226057/Sikh-woman-asks-court-not-to-annul-marriage-to-mentally-disabled-man.html
His father, a leading figure in the British Sikh community who has since died, was the driving force behind the arranged marriage with a family from Punjab.
In 2009, the husband, now in his late 30s, was taken to the Indian region by his parents. The wife, some years his junior, was lame and the judge described them as two young people who “might otherwise have found it hard to marry”.
The woman told Mr Justice Holman she had consented to the arranged marriage as an “obedient daughter”.
She said she did not meet her husband before their wedding day and only realised that “he was not like a normal person” after the ceremony. She said they had slept together on their wedding night and on a few occasions since.
She moved to England to be closer to the man, who is cared for in a local authority home in the West Midlands, but has no recourse to public funds and works long hours as a fruit picker.
The court heard that she visits her husband several times a week and that they take pleasure in each other's company.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10226057/Sikh-woman-asks-court-not-to-annul-marriage-to-mentally-disabled-man.html
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