India: Elderly couple seeks permission to commit suicide over false dowy accusation

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'Dejected and traumatised after being caught in a protracted legal battle defending themselves against allegations of their daughter-in-law and her family, an elderly couple has sought mercy killing from the President.

The couple, retired central government employee DD Sharma and his wife Shakuntla who are both 68, is unable to meet their daily expenses, thanks to the court proceedings that have dragged on for a decade now.

"Please give me the permission for mercy killing or send me some poison so that I can free myself and my wife from the wrath of the draconian law of domestic violence," pleaded Sharma in a letter to the President and the Chief Justice of India (CJI). The couple wrote to the President on January 14 this year, but is yet to get a reply.

Sharma, a resident of Yamuna Vihar in Delhi, said he and his wife have been falsely implicated in the case. He said there has been no development in the case despite it dragging for 10 years. He further alleged that despite lodging a complaint with the National Commission for Women (NCW), nobody has come to their rescue.'