The Government of India has cancelled passports of 45 non resident Indians for abandoning their wives said Maneka Gandhi who is the Minister for Women and Child Development. An agency called integrated nodal agency has been looking into the matter and has issued look out circulars to absconding husbands in the case of NRI marriages. So far, 45 passports have been impounded She also said that the government had introduced a bill in the Rajya Sabha to give justice to women who have been abandoned by their NRI husbands.
However the bill has been stalled in the Upper House it envisages registration of marriages by non resident Indians and sought amendment of the Passport Act and amendment of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The bill has been a joint initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
