Husband in Australia, Wife Thrown Out of Marital Home After Father-in-Law's Death
NRI Wife Thrown Out: A Punjab woman alleges she was evicted from her marital home and stripped of her belongings after her father-in-law’s death, while her Australia-based husband stayed silent. This incidentally is the third NRI FIR from the region in weeks.
North Desk Correspondent
Mohali, August 14
An FIR registered this week by Punjab Police alleges a pattern distinct from the abandonment cases North Desk has covered in recent weeks; this one centres not on a husband’s silence from abroad, but on what a woman says happened to her standing in her marital home the moment its patriarch died.
The FIR, accessed by North Desk and registered under Section 85 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, names Mohit Rishi, currently in Australia. The complainant is a resident of Kharar in Punjab.
Married, Then Left Behind
NRI Wife Thrown Out : According to her statement, the woman married Mohit Rishi on September 23, 2023, in a ceremony conducted according to Hindu customs at a marriage palace in Sector 52, Chandigarh. Her parents, she says, gave dowry and wedding gifts as per their capacity, and she moved into the family home in Sector 61, Mohali.
Within 15 to 20 days of the wedding, her husband left for Australia. What followed, by her account, was not confrontation but continuity of a kind: she says she stayed on in her in-laws’ home, took care of her mother-in-law, and carried out her responsibilities as a daughter-in-law for over two years — describing herself in the FIR as someone who kept the household running “like an obedient daughter.”
A Death, and a Reversal
NRI Wife Thrown Out : The complaint’s turning point is specific and sudden: her father-in-law died on January 16, 2026. She alleges that soon after, her mother-in-law and her husband — still in Australia — began pressuring her, telling her she had no relation to the house any longer and that she needed to leave.
She alleges she was subjected to abuse and verbal mistreatment by family members and was thrown out of the house. More strikingly, she says she later learned that her own and her husband’s belongings inside the home had been sold off without her knowledge or consent — leaving her, in effect, dispossessed of both residence and property in one stroke.
She describes fearing that her in-laws and husband, having already forced her out and disposed of her belongings, might now go further and cause her physical harm, or stage a self-inflicted injury to falsely implicate her — leaving her seeking police protection and legal action to safeguard her right to live in the matrimonial home.
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NRI Wife Thrown Out: A Faster Path to an FIR
The woman filed her original complaint in February 2026, roughly a month after her father-in-law’s death. Compared to the two NRI cases this desk has reported in recent weeks where FIRs followed five years and two years of complaints respectively, this file moved considerably faster: from complaint to registered FIR in under six months, following departmental verification by the police.
Part of a Pattern, Not a Repeat
NRI Wife Thrown Out: This is the third NRI-related FIR North Desk has reported on in as many weeks from the region— following a land-registry fraud case against a Kharar builder (SAS Nagar) and a cruelty case against a Canada-based husband who cut off contact after his wedding (Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar).
Read together, the three cases span the range of complaints: property fraud, marital abandonment, and now, dispossession from a marital home following a family death — each alleging a different kind of vulnerability faced by women and families with a foot in India and a spouse or dealings abroad.
Unlike the previous two cases, the husband’s absence here is almost a backdrop rather than the central grievance — the dispute, as this woman in the latest case describes it, is over her place in a household once its senior-most member was no longer there to anchor it.
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