A woman in India quit her Morgan Stanley career to get married only to see her dreams shattered within a few months, she claims.
She says she saw her Navy officer husband in a compromising position with a senior officer's wife and was told that she too would have to be part of the "wife-swapping evenings" if she wanted her husband to keep his job.
"When I saw my husband with the other lady I started to cry and question my husband. The woman instead shouted at me, slapped me and threatened me with dire consequences if I did not keep quiet," the 25-year-old said.
The Navy has flatly denied the allegations with defence minister A K Antony seeking a report on the matter.
Sumedha, who is preparing for her civil services, said 20-30% of naval officers indulged in wife-swapping.
"There are parties every day and the women wear very revealing, almost vulgar clothes. I found later that wife-swapping was common there," she said.
When asked how she could substantiate her allegations, Sumedha said, "I know what I have seen. There has been a complaint filed earlier about wife-swapping in 2011 on INS Dronacharya but the officers involved were posted out and the issue buried."
Sumedha, who has filed a complaint with the Harbour police station in Kochi and the Vasant Vihar police station in Delhi, said she was molested by senior officers in the presence of her husband. "I was bound down and molested by three of my husband's colleagues. My husband then threw me out of the house," she said.
She added that the only time her husband had shown remorse was when he told her that he had to indulge in this "wife-swapping" or he would lose his job.
"Officers and sailors, they were all afraid to say anything or come to my rescue because they feared being thrown out of the Navy," she said.
There have been allegations that she was mentally unstable, but Sumedha says that she knows the truth.
- TOI
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