Hope the woman stays safe & happy. What I fear, having covered such cases, is that since the woman loses her family & support system, and is usually totally dependent on husband financially & socially, she becomes very vulnerable. We hv seen many such cases ending up in murders https://twitter.com/shalabhmani/status/1296436432664440834

In Ekta-Saqib case, family dint even file a missing case as they knew Ekta had eloped. Saqib killed her soon after. For a year, nobody came to know she had died. Had it not been for Meerut police, she would have just vanished without a trace. https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/chopped-body-of-a-woman-was-found-in-up-last-year-turns-out-an-occult-practitioner-had-trapped-her-in-love-and-killed-her-heres-her-story

In Priya-Shamshad case, Priya’s family had no clue she had disappeared. They were not in touch with her. Nobody cared if she died or lived. Had it not been for a friend of Priya, nobody would hv even come to know she has been killed and buried in house https://swarajyamag.com/politics/another-interfaith-love-ends-up-in-murder-shamshad-kills-priya-and-her-daughter-buries-bodies-in-own-house

In this case, the woman, a dalit, who eloped and married one Imran, returned to her home within 7 months. She filed a case that the man drove her into prostitution, saying - “hum to tujhe laaye hi isliye they”. We played a part in her rehabilitation https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/an-interfaith-marriage-that-has-left-two-families-shattered