Imphal, July 06 2009: Inspite of enacting legislations and taking up other necessary steps to stop domestic violence, many women still continue to suffer in the family for the sake of their children 32-year old Thangjam Ongbi Ranjita is one such victim who has been silently enduring the ill-treatment of her husband for the last 10 years.

Married to Thangjam Inaocha (38) of Nagamapal Lamabam Leikai on May 11, 1997, Ranjita has two children, a son and a daughter.

The son is 12 years old and is studying in Tamil Nadu and the daughter is 9 years old.

Talking to mediapersons about her difficulties at the Press Club here today, Ranjita said she has been enduring the ill-treatment of her husband all these years for the sake of her two children.

But after her husband threatened that she would be killed if she returns home, she has been taking shelter along with her daughter at one of her sister's place.

When asked why her husband ill-treated her, Ranjita informed that soon after their marriage, her husband told her not to go out of the house.

Although such restrictions were imposed her husband never cared about the daily needs of the family and remain drunk all the time apart from not having a steady source of income to run the family.

With the financial condition of the family became worsening day by day, Ranjita joined a Marup along with some of her friends and with the money she got, she loaned out the same to other needy people on interest.

But when she went around to collect the interest her husband suspected that she was having illicit affairs with some fellow and called her names.

After collecting all the money she had loaned out, Ranjita finally opened a fish shop at Nagamapal Machin.

But here again, her husband charged that she was running the fish shop so that she could continue to have illicit affairs behind his back.

As her husband also beat her up every day regardless of the timing, Ranjita informed that when her husband returned home drunk she sometime hid inside the ceiling of the house and many a time she had gone back to her maternal house.

Inspite of all these, the poor woman still say she does not want to be separated or divorced from her husband for the sake of her children.

Ranjita wants the Women Commission 'to do something' so as to make her husband understand.

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