WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENTShe says she was verbally abused, had her hair pulled, her face pushed into the pillow, bitten, slapped and raped in the course of her three-month marriage. On Wednesday and Thursday a Toronto court heard what finally pushed the woman we’re calling Sakhi — her real name is under a publication ban — to break away from the torture and go to the police. Sakhi’s complaints led to multiple charges of assault, sexual assault and uttering threats being laid against her husband Rajinder Gupta, as well as charges of assault and uttering threats against his mother Sheela Gupta. His father Vinod Gupta is charged with uttering threats. They have all pleaded not guilty in a trial that began Monday. On July 10, 2015, Sakhi said she called Rajinder Gupta before she began her shift at a factory where she found a job. She couldn’t speak on the phone during work hours, which made him angry. “Why did you bring the phone?’ he said. “You should be dead, or I’ll kill you,” he said angrily. But she didn’t take it seriously. “That night when I finished my work, I was sitting outside and weeping,” she said in Punjabi, breaking down in court. “I told him, ‘You have ruined my life.’ He said, ‘Go jump off a bridge and kill yourself,’ ” she testified.There is a bridge near her factory. And when Gupta picked her up after she finished work that night and they were driving back, he slowed down on the bridge and said it again. “I was crying,” she said. “He’s telling me, his own wife, to die or he’d kill me.” They went home, she said, where he said he wanted sex, and when she declined, he bit her. Bit her on her face (she gestured to the right of her chin), bit her on her inner arm (she gestured an interior bicep “I’m not sure which arm”), bit her on her right breast. Bit her hard enough to almost bleed (un ...
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