Even in today's modern era in our society, many such gruesome pictures of conservative thinking and degradation of human sensibilities come to light, seeing which even humanity becomes ashamed. A fresh and heart-wrenching case has come to light where when a newly married woman was suffering from pain after a serious surgery, her in-laws not only took care of her but also refused to give her even two meals on time. In that critical period after the operation, when the patient is in dire need of utmost care, medicines and nutritious diet, he was made a victim of mental and physical torture. This inhuman incident has once again given rise to a very serious and piercing question that have daughters-in-law in our society become mere machines doing household work, and does the human being within them mean nothing to their in-laws? After the operation, the daughter-in-law returned home straight from the hospital and the phase of torture began. The incident started when the victimized daughter-in-law had to undergo a major surgery on the advice of doctors due to serious health problems. After the surgery, when she returned to her in-laws house after being discharged from the hospital, her stitches were not completely dry yet and the doctor had given her strict instructions for complete bed rest. But the in-laws, who had kept humanity and sensitivities at stake, completely ignored the serious physical condition of the daughter-in-law. As soon as she reached home, she was expected to forget her illness and pain and immediately take over the kitchen and get involved in daily household chores. When she expressed her inability citing her physical helplessness and pain, the anger of her in-laws reached sky high and they started misbehaving with her. Cruel refusal to even give food to the daughter-in-law who was suffering from pain, the height of this inhumanity was seen when the woman was kept hungry while taking medicines after surgery and the family members flatly refused to give her food. Family members said that she was pretending and making excuses of illness to avoid work, whereas the truth was that she was not even able to get up from the bed. On one hand the doctor had advised her to eat light and nutritious food on time, on the other hand her own in-laws were keeping her hungry to torture her. This kind of mental and physical torture is enough to break any person from within, and it was no less than hell for a girl who had come to her in-laws house to build a new world of hopes from her maternal home. This single incident is proof of how deeply rooted patriarchal thinking and insensitivity have become in many homes even today, where a daughter-in-law is not considered a human being but a slave or a robot. When a woman gets married and enters a new home, she leaves her parents and comes to nurture new relationships, but in return she often receives such cruel and exploitative behavior that crushes her identity. It is the duty of the intellectuals, women's organizations and every sensitive citizen of the society to raise their voice against such inhuman incidents. If strict steps are not taken in time against this type of domestic violence and mental torture, there will be a complete collapse of human values in the society. Pleading for justice and taking necessary steps against this mental torture. When the water level reached above her head and it became impossible for the victimized daughter-in-law to spend even a moment there, she gathered courage and informed her parents about this entire incident. The people from the maternal side reached the spot and immediately took the help of the police and took the daughter out of the house of torture, after which the process of legal action has now been started. This case forces us all to think that when will this attitude of our society towards daughters-in-law change and when will they get the right to live as a human being. Families have to understand that relationships are based on love, trust and respect for each other, not on oppression and abuse.
