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India-Pakistan
Clerics uphold drunken divorce
2006-08-22
KOLKATA: Islamic clerics in eastern India have ruled that a woman divorced by her husband in a fit of drunkenness can remarry him only after she takes another husband for one day, police said on Monday. Ershad, a rickshaw puller, uttered the word "talaq", or divorce, three times earlier this month while he was drunk and when news leaked out in their village in eastern Orissa state, the clerics said they must separate.
“The clerics have said the man the woman marries temporarily must be 70 years of age...”
"The couple had kept it under wraps and continued to stay together but the clerics ruled that since Ershad uttered the word talaq three times, it constituted a divorce," district police chief Shatrughan Parida said over the telephone.

Under the rules, the woman, who is a mother of three, must marry another man and obtain a divorce from him before she can be reunited with Ershad, the clerics in the local mosque said. The clerics have said the man the woman marries temporarily must be 70 years of age, Parida said.
Posted by:Fred

#7   "Ershad, a rickshaw puller."
I read a historical novel that pointed out that Rickshaw Pullers normaly had very short lives, averaging only eight years before being so worn out they simply die, they simply cannot get enough food to sustain their bodies from all the excessive demands put on them, plus they usualy were poor to start with so couldn't afford much food.
It was generaly considered a "last Job" and few survived.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-08-22 22:07  

#6  The Indian courts have already ruled that this "divorce" is null and void.
The entire bunch of clerics can be charged with contempt of court and jailed.

Posted by: john   2006-08-22 17:38  

#5  Offhand, I'd say about, oh, 70.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-08-22 15:52  

#4  The clerics have said the man the woman marries temporarily must be 70 years of age

Just curious: how old are these clerics?
Posted by: James   2006-08-22 15:06  

#3  Well if He was drunk when they got married, it's only fitting He can divorce her while in the same condition....
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-22 12:15  

#2  The clerics have said the man the woman marries temporarily must be 70 years of age

They gotta be making this stuff up. I can just see all these clerics going into the back of the mosque afters these pronouncements and just laughing their asses off.
Posted by: DoDo   2006-08-22 12:00  

#1  "Ershad, a rickshaw puller." Must be a real catch in Kolkata.
Posted by: Cheech/Chong   2006-08-22 10:38  

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