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Honey, I've lost you in a game of cards


A MOTHER of two young children has gone into hiding after her husband wagered her in a card game and lost.

Worse, she only found out that she had been wagered when the four men who had 'won' her showed up to collect their booty on 19 Dec, reported the Times of India.

Instead of defending his wife, Mr Sokendra Kumar, a resident of Muzaffarnagar in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh simply told her: 'Tumko hum juen mein haar gaye hain (I have lost you in the game of cards).'

Fortunately for his wife, her screams drew the attention of their neighbours, who rushed in to prevent the men from dragging her away.

In the confusion, the four men fled.

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 with trivial issues. For them it was too small a thing to intervene,' the woman said.

But the police saw it differently.

When questioned, station officer Vijay Kumar confirmed that the woman had approached the police, but said that it was a domestic dispute.

He said: 'It was found to be a false allegation and the issue was only limited to a domestic dispute and she went home.'

Except that she didn't go home.

Residents of the area said the woman is now in hiding, afraid that the men who had come to collect 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.
And her loser husband? It seems that even his own mother has given up on him.

'We owned some four bighas (2.6ha) of ancestral land and used the earnings to get two meals a day for the family of four, including his wife and their two sons,' said MrKumar's mother, Shakuntala.

The sons are aged seven and four.

'But he sold the land and squandered the money on gambling and drinking. He even sold all the utensils,' she said.

Source:
http://www.asiaone.com/News/The%2BNew%2BPaper/Story/A1Story20081229-111035.html