This case examines Kiranjit's childhood in India, she was one of nine and her Mother and Father died when she was 16 years old, she states her upbringing was incredibly good and she had a middle-class quality of life.

As a child and young adult, her ambitions were to study and not marry as was normal in her culture. She found that outside forces limited her ambitions and while visiting her Brother in Canada she was persuaded to settle down and marry.

She states that she had no choice but to marry. Her Bother, who she was staying with and who lived in Canada arranged for a Man called Deepak Ahluwalia to fly from England to Canada to meet Kiranjit. Kiranjit and Deepak only met once before getting married in Canada.

Ahluwalia states that the abuse started the next day after marrying Deepak, they then moved the UK to start their m ...