Husband deserts Muslim woman for attending Independence Day.

published on August 30, 2014

A Muslim school teacher in Bihar was forced to leave her house by her husband who felt she had violated the Shariat law by participating in a Independence Day function, police said on Saturday.

Nazia Khatoon, a teacher in a government-run middle school in Begusarai, about 125 km from here, was driven out of the house along with her two minor sons by her husband Umar Khan, a police official posted in Chatra district in neighbouring Jharkhand.

Khatoon on Friday approached the Begusarai superintendent of police and sought justice.

“My husband has been threatening me to leave my school teacher job or he will desert me. He forced me to leave my house after I attended the Independence Day function,” she said.

She told the police that her husband was torturing her for more dowry. She was married in 2003.

Begusarai Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar said police have taken her case seriously.

“We will try to resolve the issue. If he does not change his mind, a legal action will be initiated against him,” Kumar said.

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