MARRIED MOTHER-OF-TWO GAMBLES HERSELF AWAY TO LANDLORD
Gambling addiction is a real condition, and in extreme cases, it can create some truly bizarre situations, like people running out of money and gambling themselves away.
An Indian man recently filed an unusual petition with police in Uttar Pradesh, India, claiming that his wife and the mother of their two children had gambled away all their financial savings as well as herself. The woman was addicted to a game called Ludo and often played it with her landlord while her husband was away as a migrant worker.
He would send her money regularly, but instead of saving it or buying things for the family, she gambled with the landlord until she lost it all. One day, she became so desperate that she bet herself, and, after losing, moved in with the landlord as they had agreed, abandoning her husband and children.
The unidentified man told police that his wife, referred to only as “Renu,” had lost all the money that he had sent her over the six months he spent working away from home, before betting and losing herself to the landlord of their family’s rented house. She called her husband to tell him what had happened and to inform him that she was moving in with the landlord.
Upon
hearing the shocking news that his wife was a gambling addict who had
lost herself to their landlord, the man left his job in Jaipur and
came home to take care of his two kids and to file a complaint with
the local police
“We are trying to get in touch with the landlord and will start an investigation as soon as we contact him,” a local police official said.
Police assistance may be necessary, since the husband claims that he had contacted his wife after she moved in with the landlord and tried to convince her to return home, but she will not because she is committed to honoring her bet.
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