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83-year-old man seeks divorce!
An 80-year-old man seeking divorce from wife after leading a married life for 53 years may sound unusual. However, Budheshwar Shukla, a retired employee of the Central Bank of India in Kanpur, is fed up with the married life and he has filed a divorce case last week in the family court, alleging that his wife Rani Devi, 71, tortures him physically and mentally. The couple had tied the nuptial knot in 1954 when even the Hindu Marriage Act had not come into existence. Shukla has maintained in his application that their marital life has been marked with frequent conflicts which could be resolved only with the intervention of neighbours. He said, in his application, that on January 11 also he had sent a notice to Rani Devi but this did not change her ways. A father of two daughters and a son, all married, Shukla contends that he has faced four operations and can not stand the alleged atrocities of his wife any further. His advocate said that Shukla had also leveled several charges against his daughter Kusum and his son-in-law Narendra. The judge of family court had fixed August 3 as the next date of hearing the case.

Argentine football coach beaten for not knowing Hindi
An Argentine coach, training young talent for last one month in Srinagar at the request of Jammu and Kashmir Football Association, was allegedly beaten up by a CRPF personnel for not knowing Hindi language. Juan Marcos, who holds FIFA licence, said he had gone to local BSNL office to inquire about his internet connection when the CRPF personnel posted there roughed him up. "I was pushed around and beaten up by the security forces personnel just because I could not speak Hindi. They thought I was a Kashmiri, who is pretending not to know Hindi," said Marcos. "The misbehaviour started when the security personnel asked me to leave my bag, containing my camera and travel documents, with them without any receipt," the coach said. Marcos claimed he was detained by the CRPF personnel in a sand bunker and was allowed to go only after a senior officer came to his rescue. "It does not matter whether I am a foreigner or a Kashmiri... How can they start beating up anybody without any reason? Just because they are in uniform and have a gun?"

Man threatens to jump from cellphone tower
High drama was witnessed in Hazratganj area of the city on Monday when a mentally disturbed person climbed atop a BSNL tower demanding that some persons, who had allegedly duped him be booked. Zia-ul-Haq, a resident of Meerut, scaled the tower in the afternoon demanding registration of an FIR against some persons for duping him of Rs 20,000.After over an hour-long drama, police and fire department personnel succeeded in persuading him to come down from the tower. Police said Haq was mentally disturbed and was changing his statements about the reasons for climbing the tower.
(Courtesy: PTI)