Wives Abandoned By Nris

In a pink-walled room of a government office at the foot of the Himalayas, women spend their days cancelling the passports of runaway husbands.

The government will bring a bill in Parliament's upcoming winter session, as part of its efforts to keep a check NRI husbands abandoning their wives, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday.

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has asked the National Commission for Women (NCW) to set up a cell dedicated to cases related to NRI marriages and monitor them on real-time basis.

In a pink-walled room of a government office at the foot of the Himalayas, women spend their days cancelling the passports of runaway husbands.

The government will bring a bill in Parliament's upcoming winter session, as part of its efforts to keep a check NRI husbands abandoning their wives, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday.

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has asked the National Commission for Women (NCW) to set up a cell dedicated to cases related to NRI marriages and monitor them on real-time basis.