In what is believed to be the first such case in the country, a woman is suing her husband for causing her to lose her virginity to him on a false promise.

In her civil suit the 30-year-old teacher is claiming RM3 million in damages. And she wants to court to declare the marriage null and void.

In the suit filed at the Kuching High Court three weeks ago, she also named her parents-in-law for "inducing their son to breach the contract of marriage", and for the "humiliation and mental torture" she suffered at their hands.

The woman met her husband in 2006 while she was still in university. After they had been dating for a few months, she claimed he asked her to sleep with him, promising to marry her and "take care of her".

In her suit, she said the night she spent with him in a hotel was her first experience.

Their marriage was registered not long after, but they never went through the Chinese customary marriage rites due to objections from her parents-in-law

Her in-laws deemed her a misfit, "a bad woman" and vowed never to make her part of the family, her lawyer Ernest Chua said today.

The woman said in her suit that her parents-in law started pressuring her husband to divorce her towards the end of last year.

"What she has is a marriage on paper only. It's not the kind we all know and the kind all women want. It's a marriage obtained by misrepresentation," said Chua.