Nurse Gets Corona, Husband Wants Rs 10L To Take Her Back

Ahmedabad, 22 March 2021:

When people are hailing the heroism of frontline workers in the pandemic, a nurse who contracted the coronavirus was told by her husband to cough up Rs 10 lakh to continue staying with him.

The woman, 27, from the Isanpur area of the city, on Saturday filed a complaint with Khokhra police alleging that her husband abandoned her when she got Covid in April 2020.

The woman, a nurse at LG Hospital in Maninagar, stated in her FIR that she married the Khokhra man on February 24, 2020. According to the FIR, the woman’s husband and in-laws began harassing her soon after marriage.

The FIR said the woman’s husband and in-laws did not want her to work as a nurse. They said she might bring the infection home.

She said one-and-a-half months after her marriage, Covid began to spread across the city. She said that she continued to attend to patients at the hospital and eventually got the disease herself. She alleged in the FIR that her husband told her then to bring Rs 10 lakh from her parents if she wanted to live with him.

With the intervention of family members, she tried to strike a compromise. But her sister-in-law, also a nurse, told her to show a fresh Covid-negative report.

But as the complainant refused to undergo any further test, her husband and in-laws told her to file for divorce.

Her husband did not come back for her for about six months, so she approached police and filed a complaint over the dowry demand and harassment.The Times Of India