do-Canadian businessman Pawan Dass was on a trip in India when he met his wife-to-be Richa in Delhi. They got married on December 11, 2003 and he flew back to Canada two weeks after the wedding and honeymoon, promising he would send her the immigration papers. Unable to bear the shame of being abandoned, Richa hung herself at her home in Delhi on April 4, 2004. In her suicide note, Richa alleged that Pawan used to call her a whore and said he was not interested in continuing their relationship. Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau said, “The husband inflicts mental cruelty and harassment to his wife by abandoning her at paternal house.