Man sells his wife for $120 due to liquor drinking habit

@ravisivan (14079)
India
October 16, 2012 6:39am CST
A 42 year old man in Andhra Pradesh, India sold his wife to a liquor dealer for Rs.6000/ (roughtly $120). The couple have three sons--Eldest son has lodged a complaint to the police against his father accusing him of selling his mother. The accused has been arrested and will be produced in court for enquiry. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Alcoholic-sells-wife-for-Rs-6000/articleshow/16829256.cms In India -- I do not know about other countries -- drinking is one habit that spoils youngster and middle aged men and women. They turn to be unproductive. They indulge in all bad habits to resort to drinking regularly. In majority of divorce cases the reason is liquor addiction of man and consequent poverty and beating of wife by the husband. I think there is no escape from this because governments encourage selling of liquor because they get taxes as revenue. Also it is difficult for these liquor addicts to stay away from it without proper medication. Please share your views.
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27 responses
• Portugal
16 Oct 12
yes sadly many guys are addicted to drinking and end up losing their wives. that guy is now even going to the jail maybe. i think that drinking is a bad habit. sadly i see that a lot here in my country. many people that spend their day drinking. i dont like to judge people but to live our life just drinking all the time? i think its a waste.
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 Oct 12
Portugal - is your place -- cold during most part of the year-- people are tempted to smoke and do indulge in drinking. but if it is at reasonable level that their work is not affected then it is fine. On the contrary if it affects their work schedule then it will further spoil relationship in family and with other members. yesterday I saw a program - a boy brought in an orthodox family -- 23 year old has been in the habit of drinking and eating non vegetarian food in the presence of parents and further ill treating them. this is a case where psychic treatment has to be given.
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16 Oct 12
This is the proof that the world is gonna end 2012. Very very sad, where the world is going, he must be very desperate to do that idk what the hell was he thinking......
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@riyauro (6421)
• India
17 Oct 12
I agree with you ravi. People do drink in cold countries to keep warm but one must know the limits and should know what they are doing. People who do such things are not in love with their family that is why they can't think beyond their drinking or any other addiction. Severe punishment to be given to such people. We are all humans and one must know how to behave with the other one.
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@varier (5685)
• Indonesia
16 Oct 12
Drinking is not a major problem in my country. Well, my country has the largest Muslim population in the world, an in Islam, drinking liquor is prohibited. Plus, my country strongly discourages liquor by applying high tax to those products. I just wish that man will be punished so hard, so it may warn another people to avoid doing such crime..
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 Oct 12
varier I know some of the principles of conservatives are very tough and of course this is a useful one in that. happy to know that drinking is not a major problem in your country. Also taxes are high. that is nice. I hope women are respected more though they are not given freedom in many issues.
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
17 Oct 12
aitul It is illegal to sell one's wife or son or daughter or any other human being. he will be punished by the court of law. Women are getting education nowadays and are improving in their standard. a lot remains to be done.
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• Romania
16 Oct 12
how sad! but this kind of stuff is legal in India? you can sold in a minut your wife, your children without be punished by authorities? the woman has no right in this situation?
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• Philippines
16 Oct 12
Oh, he's really sick. It's bad to become addicted in drinking liquor. We can do things which are really bad. I guess it's our duty to discipline ourselves. We should just drink moderately and if possible, we should only drink occasionally. It's better to save our money than just spending it for liquors. Thanks for sharing and happy mylotting.
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• Philippines
17 Oct 12
Oh, they are so addicted. They're already poor and they keep on wasting their money in drinking. I hope they will change their lifestyles. Thanks for the comment and happy mylotting.
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
17 Oct 12
Yes. Drinking liquor spoils health and also makes one poor. occasional is done only in the case of rich people and not poor people. periodical counselling should be done to see that liquor addiction is reduced.
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@riyauro (6421)
• India
17 Oct 12
That why poor man stays poor by choice also. They can do much better but there is no wish to do better and have good life, instead they chose to drink and make others life miserable with them. this is crazy.
@surekharathi (14146)
• India
16 Oct 12
Ohhhh God uncle this is very sad news really some men are very cruel and how addicted from some habit and sell the family member for this. But in India mostly the girl selling cases are more I heard the first time husband sell his wife. But yes for money some cruel husband leave the wife for other persons and take the money from them. I watch in crime petrol a man send his wife on another place and say stay here I will came back after some time but he not came and 4 other man is came and put the women in her car and raped one by one all four man and afterwords killed her and through in forest area. But I feel this is happened only in some community because if surrounding background is good then no man are do this. Drinking habit is worse habit I think Govt. earning more money from liquor seller so they not try to banned on this shops.
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• India
17 Oct 12
You are right uncle in Maharashtra's people also such habit but you are right labour class and few persons in middle class. But due to this habit life always is risky.
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@prashu228 (37526)
• India
16 Oct 12
they speak everything only for name sake, nothing for real, if they do so ,they wont get the votes. I think our people also should start using their brains, why should we vote just for liquor? The consequences are to be faced again by us , but not by the politicians. people are just voting for liquor and money. This should be changed.
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@prashu228 (37526)
• India
16 Oct 12
opps, i am so sorry, this response actually i thought to write in Sawasthy's column.
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@prashu228 (37526)
• India
16 Oct 12
oh very sad, people can go to any extent for liquor, this is really sad, as the government is also encouraging the liquor and the political parties are taking advantage of it. I think we cannot bring any changes in near by future regarding the problem. Its in peoples hands and once they decide it strictly,then only we can think of any changes. Otherwise there is just no hope.
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 Oct 12
middle class girls drinking -- i think it is rare in India -- i have heard recehtly a few cases of engineering college girls from a deemed university in chennai -- indulging in such activities. andhra i think is not that bad in this respect.
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 Oct 12
prashu this has happned in A.P. your state. this leads me to suggest girls should check up about the drinking habit of boy. if the boy is making occasional drinking also he should not be preferred? but it is difficult to ascertain this. Boys may hide this at the time of marriage.
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@prashu228 (37526)
• India
16 Oct 12
yes of course ,very important to know about the boys as well as girls , as we cannot believe anyone these days. proper investigation is necessary before marriage.
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@riyauro (6421)
• India
16 Oct 12
Oh and Goa is the hub of liquor in India. It is sad how the man sold his wife. some man have no respect for anyone and they behave like animals. They try to own the woman and do whatever they like to do with them. Rich people are getting richer by selling liquor while other suffer after consuming it. I have seen people take liquor from here since it is the cheapest compared to all over india. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 Oct 12
riyauro Thanks for the response. Woman are not given respect. As long as they are young -- they are emotionally attached -- till getting children things go on well. after that man doesn't hesitate selling his wife. I also heard Goa is liquor hub -- people walk in the beach with less dresses. also visited mostly by foreigners who are exploited by the local for funds. Madam: do you check up friends requests received regularly or you see once in a while? good day.
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
18 Oct 12
riyaauro: thanks for accepting friendship. Good you have more requests. True it takes a lot of time for accepting friends.
@riyauro (6421)
• India
17 Oct 12
Oh yes ravi. once they are young they are attached.. gosh, so sad. yeah lots of foreigners here in goa. Season has just started and and this week the whole town it full with Indian tourists because it is holiday time for many because of dashera. Oh I am sorry if I did not add you still.. I have 100 requests and I find it bored to accept because it while loading it takes lot of time. I will see you now and accept. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.
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@ellyse2003 (1463)
• Philippines
16 Oct 12
Wow, what a news today. That was really, disappointing to know that her own husband is selling her. Why in the world did he do that? Well, he can't think right when his tummy is out of liquor. What a mess! I know his family hates him right now. I never imagined that these things will happen in real life.
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@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
16 Oct 12
He must have been drunk when he sold her, huh? How could he have otherwise thought that this would be acceptable? You find all kinds of people all over the world.
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 Oct 12
yoyo At least in USA I have not heard or seen such incidents. it is because cheap liquor is not there. labour is also costly here and probably people are advised properly by church. further liquor is costly in usa. drinking -- i am not used to it and i cannot imagine what thrill people get. At 60 years even without drinking i get head reeling. why to get head reeling after drinking?
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@riyauro (6421)
• India
17 Oct 12
yeah true, there is lot of cheap liquor here and people go for it and it had thuis adverse effect later. One must think about wife and family if they have one. It is responsibility.
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
16 Oct 12
hello ravi, This is absurd. There's funny joke here in our country for gamblers- that, if they don't have money to spend with their vices, they might sell their spouses. But it's only a joke- and now I am reading it here- due to liqu*r, the man sell his wife- d*mn azzhole.
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@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
16 Oct 12
oh wow oh wow.... So, I thought this is just of the barber's joke here in our country (as we call it "barber's jokes) So it happens in real in your history- was it history of just a myth? Hmn....
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 Oct 12
jaiho It is believed that such incidents happened say 6000 years ago. there are examples to believe that these things happened. In fact all these are related to Sri krishna who is considered as God by Hindus. It may be possible that these things happened--because we have examples such things happening before our eyes. during my life time a person Shridi Sai Baba is put in the place of God. similarly Puttaparthi Sai baba also rose to Godhood. Or people put him in that place. One thing in all these where people believe one can do wonders or one is not asking for anything he is made God. Such bad habits as drinking, gambling have been in existence from time immmemorial. In my case my father was a gambler and I learnt not to to take to such bad habits. This was mainly due to my mother, grand mother, uncle and aunty who guided me properly. Otherwise i would have also been to a great gambler pushed into ditch.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 Oct 12
jaiho: It is not a joke. About thousands of years ago an epic Mahabharatha was written in India. It is mentioned therein that dharma (eldest of the five pandavas) bet his wife in gambling and lost. thereafter they went to forest. then 18 days Kurukshetra war took place. I am giving a link for this. please read the gist of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata In India Ramayana and Mahabharatha are two great epics. We have Bhagwad Gita also which can suit any day and any man.
@Lupin3d (225)
• Philippines
16 Oct 12
I really cannot understand how a person would be able to sell someone. Let alone the mother of his children. What really puzzles me is the fact that the wife didn't even complained being "sold". Human life is not a bag you can just sell or give away...
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@Lupin3d (225)
• Philippines
17 Oct 12
lol. I honestly forgot my password and was too lazy to use the "forgot password" thing.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 Oct 12
yes. aS i read -- the woman was sold - she was given a bus ticket to travel to another place where the buyer was waiting-- this lady got down in between. human life has become so cheap possibly because of human population explosion in India.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 Oct 12
incidentally why did you not use mylot for the last over three years? any special reasons?
• Philippines
16 Oct 12
hi ravi, If I will have a husband like him I will sell him to have a 10 years or more supply of chapatti or roti this is Insane and that man is an a$$h*le . happy mylotting
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• Philippines
16 Oct 12
hi raja, I know and I don't want to comment further more about it I might offend some of your countrymen but this is so sad
• Philippines
16 Oct 12
think so truth hurts
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@riyauro (6421)
• India
17 Oct 12
If my man does such thing I will take him to FIJI and let the army take care of him. I will tell them to break his bones..
• India
16 Oct 12
There are many such unbelievable cases which are not even looked upon especially in India. Recently we at our college were made to see a video relating to smoking. Data left us stunned. 104 deaths per hour due to smoking. What you have also highlighted is that these habits are deteriorating a person biologically as well as socially. How can someone sell his wife!! No matter how important the purpose is, is a human made to be "sold"?? I have seen many of my friends getting indulged into such activities in front of me. I do not know how do they develop such habit. I have seen them making their life a mess and doing far injustice to their health. One of them even lost his life, but still my other mates have never tried to ponder over it. I am now in a very good environment. This place is too good for such an unsocial act. But the problem lies in the fact that there are too less places like the one I am in. Mostly according to what I think, an individual starts these insane activities in his college years when he has got all of the freedom of his life. We are needed to be corrected here. I am sure that I would not get into this. The reason I say this so confidently is that I feel I have crossed the "critical" phase when I could have been influenced by others to get into such practices. In other words, now I have a mind of my own. Secondly I feel the environment one lives in, in this context it constitutes mainly of his friends and family members, determines to a very great extent whether he will cross that "critical" phase when he can get driven away. I thank all my friends for giving me such an environment. It was not that we never talked about these things. In fact contrary to this, I would confess we used to talk a lot about these and these talks have in return helped us to be away.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 Oct 12
Gautam: it is really nice of you to have given a detailed response giving account of your experiences. yes. there are phases in every man's life. if he crosses teen age and also 30 years to some extent he can be assured of not getting into bad habits. again much depends on the company one gets day to day. One must be in the company of good people. Life this in mylot also there are a lot of good topics and topics which not all of us may be interested in responding. we must keep ourselves away from such topics.
• Greece
16 Oct 12
This is the worst kind of a horror story. I find it almost impossible to believe that this could have happened, except that I know you would not make this story up. A few days ago the world celebrated 'the day of the girl child' it is well over due. I can only hope that the teachers of the young generation are clearing this kind of prejudice, mysogeny and cruelty out of the heads of the children they teach.
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• India
16 Oct 12
Bad habits always leads to bad result.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
17 Oct 12
Unfortunately many people are addicted on drinking in our country and government is making a huge income through this business. Undoubtedly there is no chance of stop selling liquor n our country. Drunker are very disciplined in the queue on buying the bottles, they have great patience to stand for long hours in front of the liquor shop. It is really bad when they are ready to do anything for earning money for their liquor. Honestly I felt government can do nothing, even if they stop selling, these people do anything to get their liquor. .People should feel by their own to change their habit then only anything happen positively. If a person wish honestly to stop drinking it is possible for sure.
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
20 Oct 12
No need to call me madam, please, my name is there, you can call my name. I felt odd if any one call me 'madam' in mylot.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
17 Oct 12
yes madam. i am also not definite about suggesting any means for solving this problem. This is an individual taste. some families are good and people are good. some families are bad and people are bad. they do not know their income earning ability but increase the number of members. there are rich families without children. people who act like this should be given punishment publicly so that others may refrain from doing so. I am sure many politicians may also be rude to their wives--beat them, torture them on account of drinking habit.
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@ally12 (1202)
• Philippines
17 Oct 12
Hi Sir Ravi! This is also happening here in my country, you know ill tell you a brief story, I have a store and im selling rice then one day a neighbor came and told me he will buy two kilos of rice, so i gave him two kilos of rice and when I handed it to him he then told me okay this is my only money available Ill just pay you tomorrow for my balance because my son is celebrating his birthday today and he brought his friends for drinking spree." I was dismayed. They dont have money for their food but they can afford to waste money in drinking and they dont drink occasionally, mind you, they do it almost every night.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
18 Oct 12
nice you have a store selling eatbles. great service. you said that they brought friends for drinking spree. how could you know this? is it you run a liquor shop also? People who indulge in such activities like selling one's relative should be taught a lesson. What are the punishments for such people in your country?
@allknowing (130084)
• India
17 Oct 12
There is no limit to what the government allows just to collect a few rupees! And even if there is a legislation here and there there are enough loopholes intentionally provided so that the activities go on, unnoticed.!
@allknowing (130084)
• India
17 Oct 12
"because governments encourage selling of liquor because they get taxes as revenue." I only reconfirmed what you said in your topic!!!
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
17 Oct 12
I can understand that the government cannot be with every citizen--india is a cou try with 121 crore + population. Right from early days parents should set an example to children. Children should be made to make friendship with good people. parents should mix up with good people. bad habits should be checked. good day.
@beenice2 (2967)
• Sackville, New Brunswick
25 Oct 12
I never heard of such a thing before, here in Canada they don't that sort of things, I'm saying that they do other things that are not better in other ways, but i do remember that in the 1800's when there slaves sold, anyway.
18 Oct 12
As compared to this Afghanistan and other all of your neighbour countries has better condition. This is just because your indian politicians are also in this business.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
19 Oct 12
i agree with you. but i do not know the solution. something has to be done in this regard.
• Pakistan
18 Oct 12
yup.. its true. all the game of politic..
@asdfgjkl (10)
• Egypt
18 Oct 12
Man cheap
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
18 Oct 12
welcome to mylot. thanks for the response. Your id appears interesting. You are from Egypt. You were good enough to mention that. Some members do not mention that also. this man's behavior is cheap. He thought this as the only way for drinking. very sad. what are you doing?