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Married Hindu woman living with Muslim lover without divorce
Ranchi: An interesting love triangle, also being portrayed as “Love Jihad”, has surfaced in Jharkhand where a married Hindu woman is living with her lover without a formal divorce from her husband.
Vinod Kumar, who works in Muscat in Oman, arrived in steel city Jamshedpur two days back to seek custody of his two children. His wife Priya Rani alias Priya Ashik has been living with her Muslim lover Sadik since 2010 in Jamshedpur.
The issue came to light when Vinod Kumar on October 31 approached Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das through Twitter, seeking his help to trace his “abducted” wife and children. He was advised to contact Jamshedpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP).
Vinod Kumar then contacted the Jamshedpur SSP and apprised him of the story of his missing family.
According to Vinod Kumar, his wife was abducted in 2010 from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.
Acting swiftly, Jamshedpur police traced his wife Priya who was living with Sadik. Police arrested Sadik and sent him to jail.
“I have come here to take custody of my children. Priya is mature and she can take any decision. But being the biological father of both children, I have a right to get their custody. She is living with Sadik without taking divorce from me,” Vinod Kumar told reporters on Tuesday.
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Vinod Kumar also alleged that the names of both children had been changed to Muslim ones. He also suspected that his son’s “khatna” (circumcision) has been done, but that only a medical test would confirm, the police said.
Priya, on the other hand, has alleged that Vinod was torturing her in Muscat and therefore, she decided not to stay with him there.
Vinod Kumar and Priya got married in 2005, and he got a job in Oman in 2007. She went to Oman twice, in 2007 and 2009. In 2010, when she had to go to Oman again, she did not.
According to police, she called Sadik to the Delhi airport and they went to a hotel. She lived in the hotel with Sadik for three days, after which she decided to live with her lover along with her children. She did not contact her husband after that.
Since then Priya has been in a live-in relationship with Sadik, according to police.
Priya and Sadik are residents of Nalanda district of Bihar. Priya’s father is a politician and he ended his relationship with her after she eloped with Sadik in 2010.
No one from Priya’s family reached Jamshedpur after the issue came to light a few days back, police said, adding that Priya and Sadik might have been in love since childhood and she might have been forced to marry Vinod Kumar.
The police also said that Priya had tried to commit suicide in Oman after her husband had discovered a message from Sadik in her mobile.
The State Scores Extra High on Gaming-Friendly Industry Index
Meghalaya scored 92.85 out of 100 possible points in a Gaming Industry Index and proved to be India’s most gaming-friendly state following its recent profound legislation changes over the field allowing land-based and online gaming, including games of chance, under a licensing regime.
The index by the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) uses a scale of 0 to 100 to measure the level of legalisation on gambling and betting achieved by a state based on the scores over a set of seven different games – lottery, horse racing, betting on sports, poker, rummy, casino and fantasy sports
Starting from February last year, Meghalaya became the third state in India’s northeast to legalise gambling and betting after Sikkim and Nagaland. After consultations with the UKIBC, the state proceeded with the adoption of the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021 and the nullification of the Meghalaya Prevention of Gambling Act, 1970. Subsequently in December, the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021 were notified and came into force.
All for the Tourists
The move to legalise and license various forms of offline and online betting and gambling in Meghalaya is aimed at boosting tourism and creating jobs, and altogether raising taxation revenues for the northeastern state. At the same time, the opportunities to bet and gamble legally will be reserved only for tourists and visitors.
“We came out with a Gaming Act and subsequently framed the Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021. The government will accordingly issue licenses to operate games of skill and chance, both online and offline,” said James P. K. Sangma, Meghalaya State Law and Taxation Minister speaking in the capital city of Shillong. “But the legalized gambling and gaming will only be for tourists and not residents of Meghalaya,” he continued.
To be allowed to play, tourists and people visiting the state for work or business purposes will have to prove their non-resident status by presenting appropriate documents, in a process similar to a bank KYC (Know Your Customer) procedure.
Meghalaya Reaches Out to a Vast Market
With 140 millions of people in India estimated to bet regularly on sports, and a total of 370 million desi bettors around prominent sporting events, as per data from one of the latest reports by Esse N Videri, Meghalaya is set to reach out and take a piece of a vast market.
Estimates on the financial value of India’s sports betting market, combined across all types of offline channels and online sports and cricket predictions and betting platforms, speak about amounts between $130 and $150 billion (roughly between ₹9.7 and ₹11.5 lakh crore).
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Delhi are shown to deliver the highest number of bettors and Meghalaya can count on substantial tourists flow from their betting circles. The sports betting communities of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are also not to be underestimated.
Among the sports, cricket is most popular, registering 68 percent of the total bet count analyzed by Esse N Videri. Football takes second position with 11 percent of the bets, followed by betting on FIFA at 7 percent and on eCricket at 5 percent. The last position in the Top 5 of popular sports for betting in India is taken by tennis with 3 percent of the bet count.
Local Citizens will Still have Their Teer Betting
Meghalaya residents will still be permitted to participate in teer betting over arrow-shooting results. Teer is a traditional method of gambling, somewhat similar to a lottery draw, and held under the rules of the Meghalaya Regulation of the Game of Arrow Shooting and the Sale of Teer Tickets Act, 2018.
Teer includes bettors wagering on the number of arrows that reach the target which is placed about 50 meters away from a team of 20 archers positioned in a semicircle.
The archers shoot volleys of arrows at the target for ten minutes, and players place their bets choosing a number between 0 and 99 trying to guess the last two digits of the number of arrows that successfully pierce the target.
If, for example, the number of hits is 256, anyone who has bet on 56 wins an amount eight times bigger than their wager.
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