A Saudi Arabia-based banker to end his marriage to a 25-year-old woman in Hyderabad in a bizarre way by using a newspaper ad to declare a divorce. Mohd Mushtaquddin has been charged by the Hyderabad police with cheating and cruelty.
Mohd Mushtaquddin married the woman in 2015 and took her after five months to Saudi Arabia, where he worked. They had a baby girl last year. The wife told the police she was shocked to see the ad in a local Urdu daily on March 4. Then she received a phone call from her husband’s lawyer.
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Two months ago, they came to India and the woman went to her parents’ home reportedly after a fight with her husband. Three weeks later, Mushtaquddin allegedly left for Saudi Arabia without a word. He did not answer phone calls, the woman has alleged. She was told by her father-in-law that Mushtaquddin had returned to Saudi Arabia and was not allowed in their home.
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According to the report, Mushtaquddin had harassed his wife for a dowry of Rs. 20 lakh. The case has emerged two days after a man was arrested in another part of the city for mailing a postcard with “triple talaq” to divorce his new wife. In a rare arrest linked to the practice that has been challenged in the Supreme Court by Muslim women, the police charged the 38-year-old man with harassing and cheating his wife.
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