A gambler put his wife at “stake” in an IPL betting game and “lost her” in Kanpur, police have said, an incident that is a replay of Yudhishthir losing his wife Draupadi in a game of dice in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata.
The matter came to light after some men started harassing Jasmeet Kaur, the wife of Ravinder Singh. With the help of social activists, Kaur, who owns a boutique, lodged a complaint with the police. A case has been registered a case but Singh is missing.
He lost all his money in stock markets, so put his wife at stake, police said. The couple, which lives in Govind Nagar, married five years ago. Things turned bitter from the very start, Kaur alleged. Her husband who traded shares took away all her jewellery.
“The wife said the husband would beat her up every now and then and once he even urged her to bring Rs 7 lakh from her parents,” said SHO Govindnagar Ajai Prakash Srivastava.
“Recently, he lost her during an IPL betting game, after which the husband’s fellow gamblers started making rounds of their house. They began harassing her on the phone too. Sensing trouble, she finally lodged a complaint against her husband on Friday,” police said.