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Husband can beat wife: Dubai court

Husband can beat wife: Dubai court

Author: PTI
Publication: The Times of India - Internet Edition
Date: March 31, 2002

In a judgement that may upset advocates of women's rights, a Dubai court has ruled that a man can beat his wife to discipline her provided the punishment should not damage her bones or deform her.

The Court also held that a woman may ask her husband for a divorce if he injures her, either by words or actions and granted a woman divorce and maintenance, the Gulf News Daily said.

The Court ruling came on a divorce petition filed by a woman, in which she asked that she be permitted to divorce her husband because he often beat her in front of her children and the housemaid.

The Court ordered the husband to pay a monthly maintenance of Dh2,000 (Rs 26,000) besides the remaining amount of her dowry - Dh5,000. She has also been granted custody of their two sons.

She had alleged that her husband beat her on different parts of her body and used electric cable, wood to abuse her physically.

Not content with that, he allegedly cursed and dishonoured her. The woman claimed that her husband had not paid for her upkeep for more than a year, although he was financially capable.
 


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