Facebook gets Bihar woman new husband, place in jail

The love for Facebook chatting has spoiled the happily married life of a woman in Bihar who eloped with another boy, leaving behind her first husband and two children.

Police said initially Anju Devi’s parents registered a case of murder against her in-laws suspecting she might have been killed over the issue of dowry which is quite common in this eastern Indian state.

However, the police suspected some foul play when they found money getting constantly withdrawn from the ATM account of the missing woman’s teacher husband Manoj Kumar, a resident of Maner-Telpa village in Patna district.

Later, on the basis of her mobile call locations, the police arrested both the woman and her boyfriend Krishna Ramarao from the south Indian city of Hyderabad on Thursday and it was only then that the entire story came to light.

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During interrogation, she told the police that she was married to a teacher from a local village but she hated village life and wanted to settle in town as she favoured modern lifestyle. Their marriage had taken place in 2002. Out of frustration, the woman who too worked as a teacher even resigned from service later