Need advice regarding ongoing marital issues in my sister (29F) and her husband (29M)’s life

Hello all,

My sister was in a relationship with a guy since the past 10 years and they got married last March and had a baby boy this January. The marriage was with both the family's acceptance. They went on honeymoon to a foreign country, and the issues started from there, he hit her twice in the foreign country. Once because she took some time to get ready and in the next instance, she was on her periods and was feeling dizzy under the sun, so she informed him that she is going to sit somewhere else (she informed where she is going to sit), and he hit here when he came to that place claiming that he searched for her in the entire are. He even hit her once after that, back in their home.

Then eventually she got pregnant, and there were complications in her pregnancy leading her to be in bedrest from 3 months to the end of pregnancy, so she had to come to our (her maternal) home. Initially, he also stayed in our home, and we took extremely good care of him (from washing his clothes, to cooking food specially for him). Then, after few days he went and stayed in his home, and then never came back to visit his wife for few months, mainly due to money related fights between them, when he demanded she pay more for their household expenses (she has been paying a specific amount since day 1 of their marriage and when they stayed in our home, she didn't pay any money to him since there were no household expenses that they were taking care of). Then, again he came back during the time of her babyshower, and they reconciled and she gave birth to their baby. After the birth of the baby. both families had a huge fight again, and that is when my sister mentioned that if he hits her again anytime in the future, she will call the police. Now, he is forcing her to resign her job and claiming that if she doesn’t resign he is going to send the divorce papers, the main reason behind it is they think that only because my sister earns and is independent, she told that she will call the police. None of their family members are picking my parent’s or my sister’s call. He occasionally picks up my sister’s call, and he only agrees for them to come back to his home, if she resigns her job.

She doesn’t even know to drive a car, yet he booked a car in her name (she was aware of it and agreed to it), and she is paying the EMI for it even when she was on loss of pay during her bedrest. Now again she is in loss of pay, as she is on extended maternity leave. She also paid 1 lakh for the downpayment of the car. Yet, he didn’t even bring the car when she went to hospital for planned C section. She also paid 50% of the amount for their honeymoon, and paid 15k for monthly expenses the entire time she was in his house. She has never asked even for a single rupee from him, we have bank statements to prove this.

His parent’s home is in a different city, so visiting them now to get a solution for this is a bit complicated. Also his parents treat our family very badly, so we are not sure if we will get any solution by visiting them. They have informed their relatives that they are willing to take my sister back but it is my parents who are refusing to send my sister back, mainly because we want her salary. Involving relatives might not be an option, because it was a love marriage and our relatives won't get involved, although we are considering escalating this with his relatives. His sibling works as in the court, so they have extremely strong legal connections, also they are filthy rich, and we are from a lower middle class family who doesn’t even own a house.

We have few recordings of the conversation, where his family justified him hitting her, the call recordings between her and him, where he asked her to leave the job else he is going to send the divorce papers. What can we do in this situation? We are from a tier-3 city, and all relatives have started asking why she has not yet gone to her husband’s home after child birth. We are going through mental trauma due to this. Should we wait for him to either change his mind or for him to take some other course of action? Should we escalate this with his family by visiting them? Also what if she misses the car EMIs now as she is in loss of pay? We feel extremely helpless in this scenario and are unable to take any decision. Please help. TIA!