Marital disputes in Kashmir on the rise, affected women fighting a lonely battle

Its 10:30 in the morning, Shaista (name changed) with half of her face covered by a black mask, is waiting outside the women police station along with her old ailing mother amid buzzing honks on the busy Ram Bagh Road here. Marital discord has taken away all her happiness and she is here to seek justice. In 2014, Shaista was married at the Gulab Bagh locality of the summer capital, just hundred metres away from her home. It was a happy day for her, the marriage was an arranged one.…

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