Dubai: A Saudi court ordered the flogging of a member of the Gulf kingdom’s feared Islamic police 120 times and banned him from leaving the country for five years after he was found to have six wives at the same time, emirates247 reported.
The court in the southern province of Jazan also stopped the man’s salary for one month and banned him from preaching at any mosque.
Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Kingdom’s most influential law enforcing body, arrested their colleague after reports that he has six wives, in violation of Islamic law which allows a man to have a maximum four wives at a time.
According to the Arabic language daily Kabar, his colleagues discovered that he had three Saudi wives, one expatriate and two foreign spouses who reside illegally in the world’s dominant oil power and largest Arab economy.
The judge also sentenced the unnamed man to six weeks in jail and fined him SR3,000 ($800), the paper said.
“The judge banned him from travelling outside Saudi Arabia for five years and ordered him lashed 120 times in three sessions…each session includes 40 lashes and should be done every 15 days,” it said.
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