Man wants to evict HIV+ sister-in-law

A Harare man has asked a Civil Court magistrate to evict his wife's HIV-positive young sister from their matrimonial house saying she might deliberately infect him with the virus.

The man's application was however refused by the magistrate who accused the man of making malicious claims.

The sister-in-law has since made a criminal report that she was assaulted for telling her sister that her husband was involved in an adulterous affair.

The man said his sister-in-law would verbally and physically abuse him and besides the eviction he wanted a protection order against the young woman.

"I want the respondent to be evicted from my house because she is HIV positive and my greatest worry is that she might deliberately infect me with the virus," he said.

The husband claimed that his sister-in-law would call him a wizard.

"Last week she attacked me and bit my arm after I had told her to leave my house because of her violent behaviour," said the man.

"I have a medical affidavit to show that I was treated at a local hospital after the attack."

The sister-in-law denied the allegations and accused her sister's husband of trying to "fix her" because she reported him at the police two weeks ago after he physically abused her for revealing his adulterous affair to her sister.

The magistrate dismissed the application and accused the man of making malicious claims and ruled he had failed to substantiate his claims against his sister-inlaw.