Ramanathapuram
Stating that her husband had left the family in lurch and could not be contacted for seven years after he went to Kuwait on contract fishing in 2011, a hapless woman, mother of two grown up daughters and a son, petitioned the Collector to help her to establish contact or facilitate the return of her husband.
In her petition on Monday, P. Saroja, 45, from Pazhanivalasai near Sitharkottai, said that her husband Malusamy, 52, had gone to Kuwait on contract fishing in 2011 to repay the loan secured for the marriage of their elder daughter and could not be contacted from the next year onwards.
After taking up the job, he had sent money on three occasions, ₹10,000 twice and ₹7,000 once before ‘disappearing’, she said. The family after trying in vain to establish contact, thought he was no more but enquiries revealed that he was very much alive and had been saying he had no family, she said.
After ‘losing’ the sole breadwinner, her son was going for fishing after completing Plus Two, she said.
Her second daughter also could not go for higher studies after Plus Two in the absence of financial support, she said. Adding to the woes, her first daughter who was married to a fisherman at Kalimangundu eight years ago, returned home with her two children, studying class IV and II last month following ‘dowry harassment.’
She urged the Collector to help her taking up the case with the Embassy of India in Kuwait, through the State government.