Legal Question in Family Law in India

I have question regarding Cruelty & Maintenace

I was married in year 2002, my husband is bank employee in a nationalized Bank, within couple of months of my marriage I was harrased, mentally tortured by my husband, fatherinlaw, motherinlaw, sisterinlaw for not bringing enough dowry. They complained that they have not given to my husband motorcycle, television, fridge, storewell, etc, so my father bought all these things and gave to my husband, during this period I was staying with my husband at a village as my husband is a bank employee he was posted there.My inlaws used to callup my husband regularly and compalin about my father and mother not doing enough in marriage. My inlaws used to visit us within 4 to 6 months, every time during there stay they use to complain to my husband about my father and mother not doing enough in respect of dowry and not giving enough as per there customs so my husband would get angry, provoked and would argue with me, make comments and taunts about lack of dowry.

After year and half of my marriage my son was born. I went with my husband to a village where he was posted. My father came to know about my state of illhealth and my mental condition he had an argument with my inlaws questioning why they are treating her in such a way, this didn�t go down well with my inlaws.

One day my inlaws came to place where I was staying with my husband as he was posted there alongwith some of the jwellery which was given to me by my parents and relatives. My husband and inlaws closed the door from inside and forcefully against my will compelled me to write and sign on a stamp paper that �my inlaws have returned to me my all the jwellery and they(inlaws) are going to open a joint account in my and husbands name and keep all the jwellery in locker�.

Not only this after that a video shooting was done by my husband in close doors whereby I was forcefully made to look as I if am receiving all the jwellery from my mothereinlaw and fatherinlaw i.e. my motherinlaw and fatherinlaw giving me the jwellery one by one in myhands, all things were done in close doors against my will, as I was alone I could not do much except to do what they forced me to do. Then they took all the jwellery with them alongwith the stamp paper and went.

Thereafter, I left my husband's home and went to my parents house. They(inlaws) are saying to everybody that I ran away with the jwellery, they are saying wrong things about me and creating a false impression about me everywhere, even writing letters to my relatives thus creating my wrong and false impression in the society.

Since last three years I and my son have been staying at my parents house.

I have following questions :

1) Can I file a maintenance application of my son and myself

2) Can I get the jwellery back,

3) As they have done the video shooting against my will forcefully in closed doors, how can they be punished by law and can that whole thing go against me in any way

4) What can be done to prevent them from creating my false and bad impression in the society which they still keeps doing

5) What are the legal options available to me in the present situation.

Please kindly guide me what can be done

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