This story is from May 28, 2017

Hyderabad man gives triple talaq after selling wife to sheikh

A 23-year-old woman from Shah Ali Banda in old city has been given triple talaq over phone after she was allegedly sold to a sheikh in Saudi Arabia by her husband.The victim is said to be Saira Banu.
Hyderabad man gives triple talaq after selling wife to sheikh
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HYDERABAD: A 23-year-old woman from Shah Ali Banda in old city has been given triple talaq over phone after she was allegedly sold to a sheikh in Saudi Arabia by her husband. The victim is said to be Saira Banu.
The mother of the victim, Banu Begum, said her son-in-law had divorced her daughter after he got her trafficked to Riyadh and that he had sent her there only with the intention of divorcing her.
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Saira Banu was smuggled to Saudi Arabia via Muscat and Dubai. She landed there on May 2.
Her husband reportedly had contacted some agents in the Old City dealing in trafficking people to the Gulf. The agent sent her on a one-month visa to Dubai.
"My son-in-law has sold my daughter and divorced her," Banu Begum said in a video appeal to Union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday. She also filed a complaint with the Shah Ali Banda police station to take action against her son-in-law.
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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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