Passports of eight NRIs cancelled for abandoning their wives

Non-Resident Indians abandoning their wives after the marriage has been a matter of concern for the families and the Indian government.

The passports of eight non-resident Indians who abandoned their wives and fled have been cancelled, a senior official of the Ministry of Women and Child Development said in a statement.

An investigation committee has been formed by Ministry of Woman and Child Development, Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs, involving NRI offenders who abandon their wives.

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“The committee has received 70 complaints in the last two months. Acting on the complaints, passports of eight NRI men have been cancelled and lookout notices issued against them,” the official said.

An online portal has been started for the registration of such marriages, but it is yet to become operational.
Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi had yesterday urged states to get their marriage registrars to inform the ministry about registration of such marriages immediately, so as to make the portal operational at the earliest.

The ministry had earlier said all NRI marriages would soon need to be registered within seven days, and if the same was not done within the stipulated time, the passports and visas would not be issued to the people involved.
Another proposal was holding the properties of NRI offenders in escrow, in case they abscond abandoning their spouse.

An escrow is a contractual arrangement in which a third party receives and disburses money or documents for the primary transacting parties, with the disbursement dependent on conditions, agreed to by the transacting parties.