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2021-10-25 India-Pakistan
Teen boy sells young wife to 55-year-old man, buys smartphone with money
[GEO.TV] Bhubaneswar, Odisha: A 17-year-old man in India's Odisha has been arrested by police after he sold off his young wife to a 55-year-old man to buy a cellular phone.

According to a report by The Hindustan Times, the teenager, who got married in July this year, found a job in Rajasthan to work in a brick kiln factory where he met the 55-year-old man.Police have rescued the wife, 26, from the south-eastern Rajasthan district of Baran after facing "great difficulty" because the villagers resisted handing over the woman to the police, saying that they had paid for her.

Per the police, the man took his wife to Rajasthan with him in August when he started the job but only a few days later, he decided to sell her to the 55-year-old man for ₹1.8 lakh (PKR4.18).

After obtaining the money, the man splurged money on dining and then bought himself a smartphone. Later on, he returned to his village and when the woman's family asked about her, he lied that she had eloped.

Police said that the woman's family did not buy his story and decided to lodge a complaint with the police. Upon further investigation, it turned out that that the boy had sold his wife off.

The report says that since the boy was under 18 years of age, he was sent to a juvenile court. The court ordered the man to be taken to a correctional facility.
What about the villagers who’d clubbed together to make the purchase?
Posted by Fred 2021-10-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 I don't know how to react to this. (。_。) ⚆_⚆
Posted by Wren 2021-10-25 00:46||   2021-10-25 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Why do so many well educated western elites cling to the notion of "universal values," e.g. a universal attachment to notions of individual dignity or human rights? Where did we get this absurd notion of a single global culture?

Aside from the purely physical -- like an attachment to comfort, or cell phones -- we have nothing in common with the savage primitives described in this article. The most backward rustic in America or Europe will react with fury to the idea that a young husband can sell his wife for a mobile phone.

We need to kill this idea that we have anything at all significant in common with the Global South.

We owe them nothing, and we are best advised to have as little to do with them as possible.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-25 01:10||   2021-10-25 01:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Her impressionable husband (17) just about finished reading
his latest Western "Self Help" book; got to Reason 19, realized his marriage "to the Old Carriage (she is 26)" was Doomed and decided to "cash-in" while the goings were good.


Global Capitalism is NOT Dead,
Just Deviant.
Posted by Cluck Darling of the Mongol Horde3294 2021-10-25 01:50||   2021-10-25 01:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Cleanup on Aisle 2. Troll on the loose
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-25 01:52||   2021-10-25 01:52|| Front Page Top

#5 ^^^
Yes, We Know,
We Have Read Your Comments.
Posted by Cluck Darling of the Mongol Horde3294 2021-10-25 02:43||   2021-10-25 02:43|| Front Page Top

#6 "Beauty is only skin deep"
~ Robert Mitchum - River of No Return.

True in 1954. True yet today.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-25 05:58||   2021-10-25 05:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Bob Mitchum was a wag, a quipmeister, today he'd be called a Sh*tlord. My favorite of his jibes: After spending a weekend in jail on a marijuana charge, one of the reporters waiting outside upon his release asked "So, how was jail, Bob?" Mitchum replied "It was swell. Like Palm Springs without the riff-raff."
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-25 06:10||   2021-10-25 06:10|| Front Page Top

#8 US feminazis utterly silent.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-25 07:05||   2021-10-25 07:05|| Front Page Top

#9 

So the US Coup BIDEN Admin, a collections of Socialist and Democrats failed to follow the roadmap for Afghanistan withdraw and properly support the Afghani gov. while doing so.

Now the Taliban took control and re-applied their 12th century culture. Now again are selling young, just entering puberty, females to old horny men.

Something we call Pedophilia Sex Trafficking here in the USA and most of the civilized / Christian world.

Question: So where are the Pink Hatters and NOW'ists?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-10-25 08:17||   2021-10-25 08:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Just remember, slavery is a uniquely american sin. Happens nowhere else.
Posted by ed in texas 2021-10-25 10:41||   2021-10-25 10:41|| Front Page Top

#11 1. A marriage is arranged between 17 year old man and 26 year old woman.

2. 17 / 2 plus 7 equals 16. She's ancient.

2. Woman decides the kid is a doofus and cottons onto a 55 year old man. The affection is returned.

3. 55 / 2 plus 7 equals 35. She's kind of young, but love is blind.

4. An offer is made and accepted. The kid comments that, "At least I can turn the phone off."

5. Indian culture asserts itself. Boy is punished, then the loving pair are reunited. Families are satisfied. Life goes on.
Posted by KBK 2021-10-25 10:58||   2021-10-25 10:58|| Front Page Top

#12 ^Are you a troll?
Posted by Wren 2021-10-25 12:58||   2021-10-25 12:58|| Front Page Top

#13 where he met the 55-year-old man

The boy may have found his preference.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-25 13:48||   2021-10-25 13:48|| Front Page Top

#14 So the boy is fine if the wife's family sells his kidney's and liver then right?
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-10-25 21:58||   2021-10-25 21:58|| Front Page Top

#15 A wicked old colonel of lancers
Awaited the newlyweds' answers.
As one: "It's a deal!"
"Mazel tov! What a steal...
For one wife... and two wonderful dancers!"
Posted by Glaque Grumble3477 2021-10-25 22:20||   2021-10-25 22:20|| Front Page Top

#16 "I just met bought a girl -- Marianne! --
To have and to hold while I can.
Hasn't half of my years--
But, my dear, dry your tears!
I shall leave you a handsome young man."
Posted by Glaque Grumble3477 2021-10-25 22:24||   2021-10-25 22:24|| Front Page Top

#17 Oh, hell... the Bradford angle... but gotta run.
Posted by Glaque Grumble3477 2021-10-25 22:26||   2021-10-25 22:26|| Front Page Top

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