Woman deserts alcoholic husband in dry Bihar, marries another man
Fed up with atrocities meted out to her by her alcoholic husband, a woman in Bihar’s Gaya district abandoned him and married another man.
The marriage of Sangeeta, mother of a two-year-old girl, and Ramkeshwar Yadav, a widower, was solemnised in Sherghati sub-divisional court in the district on Friday in the presence of their relatives and social activists.
Sangeeta said she spent nearly five years in trauma after her marriage to Sanjay Yadav of Dakhinkhap village.
“After my marriage, I was shocked to see that almost every member of my in-laws’ family was addicted to alcohol. Even after the birth of my daughter, there was no change in the behaviour of my first husband, who would often turn violent under the influence of liquor and inflict injuries on me. When all my efforts to convince him to give up liquor failed, I left my in-laws’ house with my daughter almost two years ago and started staying with my parents,” she said.
“My ordeal did not end here. I thought my action will change my husband. But he would procure liquor even after the imposition of total prohibition, reach my parents’ place and subject me to torture. That forced my parents to look for a new life partner for me,” she said.
India needs a movement akin to the freedom movement for its development, Prine Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.
“Similar to the freedom movement, we need a movement for development, where the collective aspirations propel the country’s growth,” Modi said.
“We all should get involved in our dream of a new India, whose mantra will be ‘opportunity for all’ and an India of self-respect.
“For several decades, we had embarked in wrong directions with wrong policies,” Prime Minister Modi said.
“The decisions then were ‘election-driven’ or based on set notions of the officials, but this has changed now,” he said.
His government is not looking (at issues facing the country) with “tunnel vision” but with “total vision,” said the Prime Minister. PTI
A member of the Dravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam, a political group in Tamil Nadu committed to spreading the rationalism of Dravidian ideologue Periyar, was hacked to death in Coimbatore on Thursday night, potentially because of a Facebook post that challenged religion.
Police said H Farook, a daily wage labourer who worked at the Ukkadam old market in Coimbatore, received a phone call at 11 pm on Thursday and left his house.
The 31-year-old was subsequently attacked and stabbed by a group of four unidentified men near his house, who fled from the spot after Farook’s cries for help attracted the attention of locals.
Police suspect that Farook’s anti-religious statements and posts on Facebook and WhatsApp may have provoked religious groups to attack him.
“Farook’s anti-Muslim sentiments had angered people. This may be a possible motive behind the murder,” said S Saravanan, deputy commissioner of police, Coimbatore.
Muslim man M Ansath subsequently turned up at the magistrates’ court on Friday confessing to the murder.
Police are investigating the murder and have sent the body for a post-mortem after collecting fingerprints and samples from the crime scene.