Man abandons wife, six children to slip away from his creditors

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March 17, 2012

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Ajman, March 17: A debt-ridden Somali man has left his family of seven, including his young wife and six children, to the mercy of his creditors.


Without their only breadwinner, the family is struggling to have even their daily bread, even as the landlords and local grocers are refusing to help them any more.


Gulf News visited the family in their dark, nearly-bare house, where the 25-year-old mother is struggling to make ends meet.


Narrating her tragic story, Ashwqa Abdul Salam, the mother of six, said that she has no money and is surviving on charity of her neighbours.


"My neighbour brings me food daily," said the poor mother.


Unable to pay the fees, her children — three boys and two girls — were kicked out of the school, and now they spend most of the time on the streets.


Her eldest child Abdul Khaliq is 12, followed by Sumayah, 10, Aisha, 8, Abdul Salam, 7, Mohammad, 6, and Ayub, 5.


"All my children are out of school and stay most of the time playing outside as they get bored in the house without TV or any other activity," she said.


She added that she doesn't have money to even buy food items. However, they are buying some stuff from neighbourhood groceries on credit.


"They are keeping a record of all the items bought and we will have to pay for everything later but I don't know how I am going to do it, the debt just gets piled up," she said.


Her husband Abdullah Mohammad, who has been living in the UAE for a long time, was running a business that ran into losses, which forced him to escape to Ethiopia.


However, she is not sure why he hasn't been able to send any money so far as he is trying his luck out in Ethiopia.


"I don't know how long we will be able to survive like this, because I am afraid our landlord might throw us out of the house as we haven't paid the rent for the last two years," wondered the mother, visibly worried about the situation.


Mohammad has an accumulated debt of Dh120,000, which forced him to escape fearing he will be put behind bars for not clearing the debt.


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July 9,2020

Etawah, Jul 9: Another aide of the Kanpur encounter accused Vikas Dubey, Bahua Dubey, died in an encounter with the police, here on Thursday.

"Today at around 4.30 AM, in an encounter with the Etawah Police, one person has died. from him, a rifle and a pistol too has been recovered. When we shared the information with the Kanpur Police, they identified him as Bahua Dubey," said SSP Etawah Akash Tomar.

"He was involved in the Kanpur encounter alongside Vikas Dubey and there was a bounty of Rs 50,000 on him," he added.

"Around 3 AM on the highway near Mahewa Police Station Bakewar, a Swift Dzire car was looted by four armed assailants on a Scorpio. Around 4:30 AM, they were intercepted at Kachaura road under Police Station Civil lines by the police. When police parties chased them, the car collided with a tree, and criminals started firing at the police," he further said.

Dubey sustained injuries during the encounter and was pronounced dead when taken to the hospital. However, the other three managed to escape. One pistol, a double-barrel gun, and several cartridges have been recovered, he informed further.

Earlier today, Prabhat Mishra, also an aide of the main accused, died after being shot at by the police.

Mishra had sustained an injury on the leg after being shot at by the police and was rushed to a hospital before being pronounced dead.

Vikas Dubey is the main accused in the encounter that took place in Kanpur last week, in which a group of assailants allegedly opened fire on a police team, which had gone to arrest him. Eight police personnel were killed in the encounter.

A search operation is currently underway to nab Dubey.

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June 6,2020

Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

No suicide note was recovered in the case, the SHO said. The boy lived in Gandhi Colony in the city along with his mother and brother, while his father, a Tamil Nadu native and Army man, is currently posted in Arunachal Pradesh. The boy’s body has been kept in hospital’s morgue for the postmortem, the SHO said.

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June 14,2020

Mandya, Jun 14: In a tragic incident, a woman and her two children were drowned in a pond at Beeranahalli village in Nagamangala taluk of this district on Sunday.

Police said that the deceased have been identified as Geeta (40), and her two children Savita(19) and Soumya(14).

Savaitha is a degree student while Soumya was studying in 9th standard. The trio drowned in a pond where they had gone to wash their cows. The locals rushed to the spot and tried to rescue them but could not save.

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