UP man stakes wife, kids in card game and loses a son | Photo Credit: Representative Image

Bulandshahr: A woman from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh has accused her former husband of using her and their two children as collateral for a game of playing cards in 2015 which he then lost.

When the accused, one Mohsin, put his then-wife and two sons on stake while gambling and lost, Imran, the man who won the game went to Mohsin's house and forced his wife to come with him.

Adding to her claims, the wife said that she started screaming when she was being dragged forcefully by the accused which led to a meeting of the village panchayat.

According to reports, the Panchayat then decided that one of the woman's kids must be given to the winner of the card game. What is even more shocking is that no objections were raised against the panchayat's decisions as a result of which, Imran, the winner of the card game took away one of the woman's sons.

The infuriated wife, who married Mohsin in 2012, then divorced him in 2015 after the incident and re-married soon after.

After running from one administrative body to the other trying to register a complaint against her former husband and the others accused, for almost two years, she filed a petition in the CJM court.

The court acting on her complaint yesterday, ordered the police to register a case against the five accused including the woman's former husband. According to reports, the police have now launched an investigation and are currently setting up a team to trace the husband who has been reported as absconding.

A 2017 report by Thomson Reuters had claimed that researchers have concluded that men with gambling addictions are more likely than their peers to have endured childhood traumas like physical abuse or violence at home, and treatment needs to address this underlying stressor.

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