A report carried by India Today, Standard Digital and Saudi Gazette that a jealous Qatari husband was fined only 40 riyals ($10) by a court for sealing his wife’s genitals with crazy glue, is said to be a hoax.
Fake news website World News Daily Report published an article titled "Qatar: Jealous Husband Seals Wife's Vagina with Crazy Glue", another one in a long series of articles about outrageous, made up crimes.
Standard Digital has sourced the news from Doha Tribune but there is no such publication. Saudi Gazette has attributed the news to agencies.
The report added that the judge ordered the wife to be lashed 100 times.
The 33-year-old Qatari man was brought forth before the court after his wife was rushed off to the emergency room and suffered medical complications and excruciating pain.
He confessed to the judge that he was guilty of gluing her genitals as he was going on a business trip abroad, believing his wife had adulterous ideas after he found out she had liked a post of his 12-year-old cousin on Facebook.
According to Judge Muhammad Bin Saden of the Qatari court of Justice in Doha, the husband did unjustly bring harm to his wife, although his reasons were “well-intentioned” but put into action in an “awkward way” he said.
Also, the judge pointed out that, after going through the evidence and photos the husband had brought to court, the suffering was in part justified but still decided the woman should be administered 100 lashes as to prevent further “misunderstandings” between her and her husband.
The husband was sentenced to pay 40 Riyal ($10 US dollars) and prevented to use any sort of glue or adhesive on his wife ever again.