Woman forces husband to sell kidney at Rs 10 lakh, elopes with money and lover
Kolkata, Feb 2 (PTI): A woman allegedly coaxed her husband to sell his kidney for Rs 10 lakh to raise money for their daughter's education, only to flee with another man taking away the entire cash in West Bengal’s Howrah district, a police officer said on Sunday.
Police launched a probe based on a complaint lodged by the husband's family living in Sankrail.
The woman had been pestering her husband for the past one year to sell his kidney and earn some money to run their household in a better way and admit their 12-year-old daughter to a good school, according to the complaint.
Believing in his wife, the man agreed to go under the scalpel after she sealed a contract with a buyer for Rs 10 lakh to sell the organ. After the surgery held last month, the man brought home the money. His wife asked him to take rest and not step outside for a speedy recovery.
"Then one day she left the house and did not return. I later found the entire amount of Rs 10 lakh in cash along with some more was missing from the almirah," the man said.
The family could finally track her to a house in Kolkata’s northern suburbs Barrackpore, far away from Howrah, with the help of their friends and acquaintances.
In that house, she was residing with the man she had allegedly eloped. She had allegedly been in an affair with him for the past one year after meeting him on Facebook, according to the complaint.
However, when her husband, mother-in-law and daughter went to the Barrackpore house of the man, she refused to come out. Her lover allegedly told them that she would file a divorce suit alleging physical and mental torture by the woman's in-laws in the 16 years of their marital life.
Talking to reporters, the man denied she had taken any cash from the in-laws’ home at Sankrail and claimed she only took away the money she had saved.
The officer said that based on the complaint and scanning the video footage of the lover’s interaction with the husband’s family, police launched a probe into the complaint.
Police said they would question the woman and her lover before initiating any action.
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Trump says EU has until July 4 to approve last year's trade deal or it will face higher tariffs
Washington (AP): President Donald Trump has said in a social media post that goods from the European Union would face higher tariff rates if the 27-member bloc fails to approve last year's trade framework by July 4.
The announcement on Thursday appeared to be a deadline extension after the president said last Friday that EU autos would face a higher 25 per cent tariff starting this week. Trump made the updated announcement after what he described as a "great call" with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Still, the US president was displeased that the European Parliament had yet to finalize the trade arrangement reached last year, which was further complicated in February by the US Supreme Court ruling that Trump lacked the legal authority to declare an economic emergency to impose the initial tariffs used to pressure the EU into talks.
"A promise was made that the EU would deliver their side of the Deal and, as per Agreement, cut their Tariffs to ZERO!" Trump posted. "I agreed to give her until our Country's 250th Birthday or, unfortunately, their Tariffs would immediately jump to much higher levels."
It was unclear from the post whether Trump was implying that the tariff rates would jump on all EU goods or the increase would only apply to autos.
His latest statement indicates he might be backing away from his earlier threat on EU autos by giving the European Parliament several more weeks to approve the agreement.
Under the original terms of the framework, the US would charge a 15 per cent tax on most goods imported from the EU.
But since the Supreme Court ruling, the administration has levied a 10 per cent tariff while investigating trade imbalances and national security issues, aiming to put in new tariffs to make up for lost revenues.
