do-Canadian businessman Pawan Dass was on a trip in India when he met his wife-to-be Richa in Delhi.
They got married on December 11, 2003 and he flew back to Canada two weeks after the wedding and honeymoon, promising he would send her the immigration papers.
It never happened; and subsequently when she confronted him about his ongoing relationship with his first wife, he abused her and also blocked her access to the cash that was being deposited in her bank account.
Unable to bear the shame of being abandoned, Richa hung herself at her home in Delhi on April 4, 2004.
In her suicide note, Richa alleged that Pawan used to call her a whore and said he was not interested in continuing their relationship.
Last week, a Delhi court directed the Canadian Non-Resident Indian to perform community service in the city’s School for Blind for six months.The court acquitted him for abetting her suicide after police arrested him on a another visit to India.
Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau said, “The husband inflicts mental cruelty and harassment to his wife by abandoning her at paternal house. Deprivin