New Delhi: A 40-year-old woman in Vadodara was astonished to learn that her husband, with whom she had been married for eight years, was actually a woman earlier and underwent a gender-reassignment surgery.
In the first information report (FIR) filed in the Gotri police station, Sheetal accused Viraj Vardhan (earlier Vijayta) of "unnatural sex" and cheating. She also named his family members in the FIR.
The couple was married for eight years but Sheetal alleged that her husband never revealed the truth about his surgery.
According to The Times Of India, Sheetal told the police that she met Viraj Vardhan through a matrimonial website nine years ago. Her former husband died in a road accident, leaving her with her daughter who was 14 years old at the time.
They were formally married in 2014 in the presence of family members and even went to Kashmir for their honeymoon. "However, the man didn't consummate the marriage and kept giving excuses for many days. When she pressured him, he claimed that an accident that he had suffered while in Russia some years ago rendered him incapable of having sex," said the police as reported by the newspaper.
The accused reassured the woman that he would make a full recovery post a minor surgery.
Back in 2020, the accused went to Kolkata for an operation under the false pretext of undergoing minor surgery. He reportedly told his wife that he wanted bariatric surgery to decrease his obesity and did not divulge further details. The woman alleged that he underwent surgery for implanting male organs in his body. The wife revealed that the husband began building an unnatural sexual relationship with her and also threatened her to keep her mouth shut.
The accused, who is a resident of Delhi, has been brought to Vadodara, said Gotri police inspector, MK Gurjar.