The proposal has been made in the wake of a rise in complaints about women getting abandoned, harassed or cheated by their NRI husbands.
NEW DELHI: In a bid to curb cases of women getting duped or harassed in marriages to NRIs, the government is considering a proposal to make it mandatory for the husband's passport number to be stamped on the wife's passport.
The proposal has been made by the ministry of women and child development in the wake of a rise in complaints about women getting abandoned, harassed or cheated by their NRI husbands.
The ministry is of the view that inclusion of the husband's passport number in the wife's passport will aid in tracing him.
"Right now, only the husband's name and address are mentioned in the wife's passport. Provisions should be made to include the husband's passport number too," a senior ministry official said.
The move will help trace the husband in case of desertion, abandonment or ex-parte divorce, he said.
The ministry has also proposed that all NRI marriages be registered under the Special Marriage Act.
"Registration under the Special Marriage Act will give more power to women as the NRI husband cannot escape easily in case of any dispute by taking the help of foreign laws," the official said.
The government is also considering going in for special agreements with other nations, including working out a set-up whereby a divorce order passed by a court in a foreign country in respect of an NRI husband and an Indian wife would have to be endorsed by an Indian court.
The ministry of overseas Indian affairs has, meanwhile, formed a six-member sub-committee with officials from the ministries of law, home affairs and women and child development and representatives from the states of Punjab and Andhra Pradesh to look into problems encountered in NRI marriages.
Over 30,000 Indian women have been abandoned by their NRI husbands, and 15,000 of them are from the Doab region of Punjab alone.
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