A brave heart in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara has chosen to divorce her husband as the husband failed to build a toilet despite repeated assurances.
Advocate Rajesh Sharma said, “The woman had filed a divorce petition on October 20, 2015 in the family court. The woman in her petition said that she was married in the year 2011. Since then, after repeated assurances, her husband failed to build a toilet and has been forcing her to defecate in the open.”
After hearing the two sides of the story, the Family Court Judge, Rajendra Kumar Sharma, recently granted divorce petition in favour of the woman. “Kept complaining to the family about not having a toilet in the house but they never listened to me and beat me up,” said the woman who filed the divorce.
The judge further commented that, as a married woman, her demands were rational and mandatory for her.
“Defecating in the open is a reality for lakhs of people in India’s rural areas, and the women, in particular, have to bear the brunt of insults and much more as they relieve themselves in the open, mostly after dark,” he added.
The incident comes in the backdrop of Akshay Kumar’s latest movie Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, which deals with the subject of better sanitation in India’s villages. Kumar’s movie, which packages a romantic story with a larger message for the society, has not garnered positive reviews yet, but the fact that the movie touches upon such an important subject is commendable.
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