Woman in Islamic Shari‘ah
7. Concerning divorce
~ 152 ~
business selling ready-made garments in Los
Angeles. As she did not want to marry a foreigner,
she decided to come to India to find a husband and
return with him to the States. She found
her
own
husband in a tall, handsome, powerfully built
Hindu boy who was anxious to go abroad. The
marriage took place with all pomp and splendor in
a five-star hotel. It took her some months to arrange
for her husband’s visa, during which time she
maintained him and paid for his passage. The
marriage was a disaster. The boy turned out to be
an alcoholic, prone to violence and averse to doing
any work. Manu sought her parent’s consent to
wind up her business, divorce her husband and
return to India. Her parents travelled to America
and tried to persuade her not to be hasty. A few
days after her mother returned to Delhi, Manu’s
husband strangled her and dumped her body in a
deserted spot. He collected all he could in the house
and was planning to flee the United States when the
police caught up with him. He is now in jail on a
charge of murder.
133.
The Hindustan Times
, (New Delhi), October
12, 1985.
