Kishori Singh is the widow of a class one air officer
.....who died of a heart attack after a prolonged drinking bout. Thereupon the air force authorities asked Kishori Singh to vacate her husband’s quarters. Then his mother, who accused Kishori Singh of poisoning her husband, produced a bogus divorce certificate and claimed the benefits accruing to the dead man’s heirs. Kishori Singh sold her gold jewellery so as to get a lawyer to get a succession certificate in her favour. Kishori Singh then asked the air force authorities to release her dead husband’s pension and other benefits to her. But unfortunately her mother-in-law has already obtained a succession certificate from another court.
Kishori Singh approached ASHISH for help. We prepared the paper work for her and although we recommended that she file a suit to be declared the legal heir of her late husband locally, she decided to fight the case in the court where her mother-in-law got her succession certificate. When she returns she says she will file the suit for declaration in the court at Secunderabad .
Ashish
Is a small group of women who support widows to claim their legal rights in Hyderabad / Secunderabad and try to provide them with a means of livelihood in an environment which is very hostile to women who live on their own.
Indian environment
Widows in India are women who exist under sufferance and on the kindness
of family members. At whatever age women are widowed, they are expected
to live their remainder of their life working for the family, and praying
for their deceased spouse’s wellbeing. 
The property they own is looked after by sons and/or daughters so they do not enjoy the benefits therefrom; they are often made to take out loans or mortgage their property. If they raise their voices to question what has happened to their money, they are thrown out of their house, committed to an asylum or left to beg on the streets.
Because widows have to fight many battles over their property, a primary area of ASHISH’s work is teaching women how to write wills, partition deeds, gift deeds, and relinquishment deeds.
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