New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Women has come to the rescue of a woman who alleged her educational and medical documents were taken away forcefully by her husband.

The woman, who is a cancer patient, approached the women's panel with a complaint that her husband had beaten her up and thrown her out of their house, said a DCW spokesperson.

She alleged her husband had refused to give her medical records and educational documents.

The woman is undergoing treatment at Apollo and AIIMS and is appearing for PhD entrance exam, added the spokesperson.

She was facing difficulty since her husband refused to give her documents back.

With the DCW intervention, the woman got back her documents from her husband.

The woman had allegedly been deserted by her husband in 2016. She got married in 2009 and has a six-year-old daughter.