Kiran’s* husband was more than 10,000km away from the home she shared with her in-laws in a village in northern India. But despite the vast distance, he watched her constantly through cameras which beamed into a screen in his Brisbane home.
“He would say: ‘I can always see what you do’,” she recalls through an interpreter.
While her husband was visiting his family home in India in 2017, the cameras were installed in the house – in the kitchen, living room and outdoor area – after the couple’s first child was born.
Two years earlier, the couple had married in a Sikh ceremony in Punjab, near the India-Pakistan border. But in the subsequent eight years, her husband would visit his wife just four times in India, staying for about a month.
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