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| Woman goes into hiding after hubby gambles her away |
| 2008-12-27 |
| LUCKNOW: A mother of two young children has gone into hiding after her dissolute husband wagered her in a card game and lost. ‘‘Tumko hum juen mein haar gaye hain (I have lost you in the game of cards),’’ was what Sokendra Kumar, a resident of Muzaffarnagar, told his wife when four men, who had ‘won’ her showed up to collect their booty on December 19. The woman raised an alarm and the neighbours rushed in to prevent the men from dragging her away. ‘‘She told us about the whole thing, but by the time the picture was clear, the four, who had come to take her away, fled,’’ Sharad Malik, a neighbour, told TOI on phone from Muzaffarnagar. After the din had died down and with the backing of the neighbours, she went to the cops, who told her to buzz off. ‘‘They scolded me saying that I should not bother them on trivial issues. For them it was too small a thing to intervene,’’ the woman said. Vijay Kumar, station officer, Thana Bhawan, confirmed the woman had approached him. ‘‘It was found to be a false allegation and the issue was only limited to a domestic dispute and she went home,’’ he said. Residents of the area said that’s when the woman went into hiding, fearing the men who had beaten her husband in the card game might show up again. ‘‘Some of the neighbours know where she is, but she is too scared to go home fearing that her husband’s friends might kidnap her,’’ said another local resident on the condition of anonymity. ‘‘We owned some four bighas of ancestral land which we had given on batai (partnership) and used the earnings to get two square meals a day for the family of four, including his wife and their two sons, aged seven and four,’’ said Sokendra Kumar’s mother, Shakuntala. ‘‘But he sold the land and squandered the money in gambling and drinking. He even sold all the utensils,’’ she said. |
| Posted by:john frum |