Hyderabad: An NRI man divorced his wife who stays in Hyderabad through a newspaper advertisement. The woman filed a complaint with the Moghalpura police here. The accused Mohd Mustaquddin married the 25-year-old woman in January 2015 and took her to Saudi Arabia where he worked.

Assistant Commissioner of Police S. Gangadhar said that the woman saw the advertisement in an Urdu newspaper, placed by her husband's lawyer, which stated that Mustaquddin had given her `talaq'.

"She tried to contact Mustaquddin several times over phone but he did not take her calls, so she lodged the complaint," Gangadhar said.

A case under IPC sections 498 (A) (husband or relative of husband subjecting woman to cruelty), 420 (cheating) and 506 (criminal intimidation) has been filed against Mustaquddin.

Last month the couple, with their 10-month-old baby, returned to the City, and Mustaquddin then went back to Saudi Arabia. According to the woman after Mustaquddin returned to Saudi, her in-laws barred her from entering their house. She also said that her husband had been harassing her for dowry of Rs 20 lakh.

"We are conducting probe and also verifying if a divorce announced through a newspaper is valid under the Sharia (Muslim law)," the ACP said.

Last month, a 38-year-old man was arrested here for cheating his wife by giving her `talaq' through a post card within eight days of marriage. Another local man, based in the US, allegedly gave `talaq' to his wife through WhatsApp. The case came to light in February when she approached the police alleging that her in-laws tried to murder her.