The real husband could even be prosecuted for illegal intimacy according to the law. Al-Madinah daily reported that the Saudi man brought the matter to the attention of the department two years ago with a proof of his marriage to the woman and other documents, but the mistake has not yet been rectified.
In fact, the cause of the problem is an error on the part of the department when it renewed his family card and entered his wife’s name on another man’s card.