Model Garima Tiwari, 35, has filed a fresh complaint in a Kanpur court against her IPL cricketer husband Amit Mishra and his family, accusing them of dowry harassment, assault and inciting suicide, officials said on Monday.Tiwari filed a complaint in the court of Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division) alleging that she faced constant physical and mental abuse from her husband and in-laws after her marriage. Besides Mishra, the complaint also names his mother Beena Mishra, father Shashikant Mishra, brother Amar Mishra, sister-in-law Ritu Mishra and sister Swati Mishra.
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Tiwari said she and Mishra, now a Reserve Bank of India officer, met on Instagram in 2019, dated for nearly three years and married on April 26, 2021, at a Kanpur club.
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Soon after her marriage, she alleged that Mishra and his family pressured her family to offer her a Honda City car and Rs 10 lakh as dowry. Her family managed to give 2.5 million rupees, but the demands continued, according to news agency PTI.She alleged that Mishra assaulted her in a drunken state, verbally abused her, kept her without food at times and took the money she earned from modeling. He also allegedly threatened her with divorce, which depressed her and forced her to abandon her career.Tiwari said she even attempted suicide once by consuming phenyl and was hospitalized. She added that she approached the police several times but no FIR was registered, allegedly due to Misra’s influence, prompting her to move the court.Her lawyer Karim Ahmad Siddiqui said the complaint was filed after the police failed to take any action.This is Tiwari’s third legal case against Mishra. She had earlier filed a domestic violence case on April 21, 2025 and a maintenance petition on April 23, 2025 demanding Rs 50,000 per month and Rs 1 million as compensation.
