Meerut: 36-year-old Arshad Badruddin, an imam from Meeurt, was recently faced with a bizarre threat from his wife: ‘shave, or I’ll kill myself’.
According to reports, the imam, in his complaint to the district magistrate, has alleged that his 33-year-old wife Sahana insisted on him shaving off his beard as she was ‘fond of clean-shaven men like Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan’. When he tried to reason that clerics like himself sported a beard, she was adamant.
“She insists on her demand. I have also told her many times to curtail the use of mobile phone as I fear that our children will also pick the bad habit and it would become difficult to discipline them. I am irritated by her behaviour. When I scolded her recently, she started crying and threatened to commit suicide after poisoning our children," the cleric wrote in his letter to the DM. He also alleged that Sahana was chatting to ‘gair mard’ or unknown men using her mobile phone through the day.
The couple, who have four children, have been married since 2001.
Arshad also revealed that when he refused to join Sahana to buy ‘western clothes for herself and the kids,’ she quarreled with him and attempted to kill herself.
“She locked herself in a room. When I peeped inside, I found that she was trying to hang herself with a rope from the ceiling fan. I immediately called for help and broke open the door. Luckily, we managed to save her. When we asked her why she was taking the extreme step, she kept mum and stopped talking to us," Arshad lamented.
The hassled cleric has sought that Sahana be counselled as he fears he might be blamed if she does anything to herself.
