Supaul: A Saudi-based migrant worker, hailing from north Bihar district, was on Sunday booked for abandoning his wife after pronouncing 'talaq' thrice over the phone, police said.
Noorul Hoda, the father of Hafiz Ikramul Haq, who ekes out a living working in the west Asian country, has been arrested along with other members of the family, who have been named as co-accused in the FIR lodged by Farzana Khatoon, said Premlata Bhupashree, in-charge of Mahila Thana, Supaul.
Bhupashree said Farzana has been married to Haq since 2013 and have been always at the receiving end of her in-laws' mistreatment as her parents were unable to fulfill the demand for Rs 1 lakh as dowry to enable her husband's migration to the Gulf country.
"Farzana has further alleged that her plight intensified after the birth of a girl child in 2017. On July 20 last, she gave birth to twin girls which made her in-laws fly into a rage," Bhupashree said.
"According to Farzana, her in-laws demanded Rs 2 lakh from her parents for the maintenance of two newly born girls. One day her mother-in-law called up her husband and asked him to divorce her so that they could get him married to some other woman," Bhupashree added.