Wipro employee's estranged wife wants justice
Nov 24, 2006 - 9:13:04 PM
, Reviewed by: Priya Saxena
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Tripti, who married Dec 1, 2002, was deserted by her husband about 18 months ago. She has been living with her parents in Lucknow since then.
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By RxPG News Service,
[RxPG] Lucknow, Nov 24 - A Wipro software engineer's wife who has filed a suit against her husband as well as Wipro chief Azim Premji, alleging her marriage was on the rocks due to the company's 'dating allowance', said Friday she was hopeful of getting legal justice.
Tripti Nigam, who filed a suit against her husband Gaurav Nigam, who works in Wipro Technologies in Bangalore, and Premji, told IANS that the company's dating allowance 'showed their complicity in encouraging his extra-marital affairs'.
Premji, along with the Wipro human resources head Pratik Kumar as well as Gaurav, have been asked to appear before a Kanpur court Nov 29. The notices were issued Wednesday by Kanpur chief metropolitan magistrate Ravindra Kumar.
On Thursday, the IT bellwether denied it had any 'dating allowance' for its employees and also declined to comment on reports of court summons issued to it.
Gaurav could not be reached in Bangalore for comments.
A Kanpur court official said: 'The notices have been sent through the police commissioner of Bangalore and should reach Wipro by tomorrow -.'
'I am sure I will get justice from the court,' Tripti told IANS over telephone from her hometown Kanpur, about 80 km from here.
'The fact that a dating allowance was being paid to my husband by his employers shows their complicity in encouraging his extra-marital affairs. They also need to be hauled up for that. I know how much I and my two-and-a-half-year-old son have suffered on that account,' she said.
Tripti said she was hopeful of 'suitable action' being taken against both her husband and his employer, whom she holds responsible for her husband's alleged licentious behaviour.
The court took prompt cognizance of her complaint filed Tuesday under the Domestic Violence Act and took it up the next day itself.
Leading Kanpur lawyer and Tripti's counsel Nand Lal Jaiswal said there was enough ground to nail both Gaurav and his employer.
'Tripti has been at the receiving end right from the time she got married to Gaurav, who ill-treated her and subjected her to mental and physical torture,' Jaiswal told IANS.
'And since his employer was giving him a dating allowance, they ought to be also held responsible for abetting his extra-marital relationships,' he added.
Tripti, who married Dec 1, 2002, was deserted by her husband about 18 months ago. She has been living with her parents in Lucknow since then.
Her husband filed a divorce application in April, which is pending before a local court.
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