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News of Jan
4, 2007
Wife Wants Husband No.1 Back,
Leave Husband No.2
By Sanjay Sharma
Bhopal,
Jan 4
In yet another bizarre tale of its kind, a man who went missing
years ago has returned to his village to find his wife has
re-married thinking he was dead. She now wants to go back to him.
Husband no. 2 has no objection.
But Purshottam Kushwaha, who strayed into Pakistan in 2003 and was
jailed there, is yet to make up his mind after finding his wife
Sheela Bai married to his cousin Ajab in Dongra Prayu village in
Madhya Pradesh.
Ashok Nagar district collector Mukesh Gupta said Purshottam, who
used to remain mentally upset, left his village for a nearby village
three years ago but boarded the wrong train and ended up in far away
Jammu instead. At Jammu, the police mistook him for a Pakistani,
thrashed him, and then let
him go.
"In confusion, he crossed the border and Pakistani authorities
arrested
him," Gupta added.
When all attempts to trace the man proved futile and it was presumed
that he
was dead, Sheela Bai, with the consent of all family members,
married her
husband's cousin Ajab in 2005 - two years after Purshottam went
missing.
She now has one girl child each from both husbands.
While Sheela Bai was living happily with the second husband, she
received a letter written by Purshottam from a jail in Lahore in
December 2004, upsetting her world.
Eventually, he was released in the last week of December 2006 and
brought to his family by the police Wednesday from the Sikh holy
city of Amritsar.
Seeing him back, Sheela wants to live with him.
Ajab, though "crestfallen" over the development, has no objection if
she goes back to her first husband.
"I have no objection if Sheela decides to live with Purshottam. I
don't have any problem in continuing my relationship with her
either," Ajab told IANS by telephone.
However, Purshottam still has to take a decision on the matter.
Sheela Bai's saga is reminiscent of the Gudia story. Her first
husband Arif, an Indian soldier, went missing in September 1999,
after the India-Pakistan Kargil war. Presuming him to be dead, she
married again and was pregnant when he
returned home. Gudia returned to Arif following elders' advice but
her joy was short-lived and she died during childbirth a year later.
IANS
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4, 2007
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