10-12-2006, 03:35 PM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Bride Bazaar</b>
Hyderabad, Oct. 11:Â Police who raided the office of a qazi who married off Hyderabadi girls to foreign nationals were shocked to discover that the cityâs âbride bazaarâ had been catering to clients from across the world including the United States, Somalia and Ethiopia. This is in addition to grooms who constantly sneak in from Yemen, Oman, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Police raided the office of qazi Waheed Qureshi on Wednesday <b>after he reportedly married off two young women in the city to a pair of Omani twins, hiding the fact that they were epilepsy patients. </b>Qureshi was among three qazis and two brokers arrested on Tuesday night.
The two women, Sameena Begum, 23, and Nazia Begum, 20, are reportedly leading miserable lives at Alkhaboora of Sohar Town in Oman and have informed their parents that they were being physically tortured by their husbands. It was discovered that Qureshi himself had performed eight marriages in the past two years for grooms from a variety of the countries.â<b>Earlier they used to conduct these marriages over phone, said a police officer. âNow they are giving power of attorney through a representative and conducting the marriage in the presence of photographsâ Qureshi is now in the custody of Santoshnagar police. </b>
Police also discovered that Qureshiâs authority to continue as qazi was put on hold in August but many marriages were performed prior to that. Qureshi was an accused in a similar case in 2005 at Kalapattar police station where he authorised the marriage of an Oman national to two girls together. <b>The seized documents from his house revealed that grooms from Yemen, Sudan, United States, Ethiopia and Somalia had married several women from the city in the last two years. </b>
Police swung into action after the parents of Sameena and Nazia informed them that they got desperate calls from their daughters who are virtually imprisoned in their husbandsâ houses in Oman. The girls were married to the Omani twins on July 18 this year. The grooms claimed to be government officials but were epilepsy patients living on meagre social security.
Apart from Qureshi alias Sajid, 43, a qazi staying in Old Santoshnagar Colony, Syed Shanawaz, 50, a marriage broker of Riyasatnagar, his sister Mumtaz Begum, 40, Mohammed Zaheeruddin, 50, a chief qazi of Nacharam and M.A. Rasheed, 33, a nayab qazi of Nallagutta were arrested. Police also registered cases against the Omani grooms identified as Yousuf Bin Salim Thani Al Busadi who married Nazia and Mohammed Bin Salim Al Busadi who married Sameena. The marriage was performed in the absence of the grooms. Only their photographs were present.
Nazia left for Oman on September 27. âA day later she called up and said that her husband was a mad man,â said her mother. âHe is torturing my daughter.â Police said the Indian Embassy in Oman has been informed of the plight of the girls.
âOur priority is to bring them back to India,â said inspector Sai Krishna.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Hyderabad, Oct. 11:Â Police who raided the office of a qazi who married off Hyderabadi girls to foreign nationals were shocked to discover that the cityâs âbride bazaarâ had been catering to clients from across the world including the United States, Somalia and Ethiopia. This is in addition to grooms who constantly sneak in from Yemen, Oman, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Police raided the office of qazi Waheed Qureshi on Wednesday <b>after he reportedly married off two young women in the city to a pair of Omani twins, hiding the fact that they were epilepsy patients. </b>Qureshi was among three qazis and two brokers arrested on Tuesday night.
The two women, Sameena Begum, 23, and Nazia Begum, 20, are reportedly leading miserable lives at Alkhaboora of Sohar Town in Oman and have informed their parents that they were being physically tortured by their husbands. It was discovered that Qureshi himself had performed eight marriages in the past two years for grooms from a variety of the countries.â<b>Earlier they used to conduct these marriages over phone, said a police officer. âNow they are giving power of attorney through a representative and conducting the marriage in the presence of photographsâ Qureshi is now in the custody of Santoshnagar police. </b>
Police also discovered that Qureshiâs authority to continue as qazi was put on hold in August but many marriages were performed prior to that. Qureshi was an accused in a similar case in 2005 at Kalapattar police station where he authorised the marriage of an Oman national to two girls together. <b>The seized documents from his house revealed that grooms from Yemen, Sudan, United States, Ethiopia and Somalia had married several women from the city in the last two years. </b>
Police swung into action after the parents of Sameena and Nazia informed them that they got desperate calls from their daughters who are virtually imprisoned in their husbandsâ houses in Oman. The girls were married to the Omani twins on July 18 this year. The grooms claimed to be government officials but were epilepsy patients living on meagre social security.
Apart from Qureshi alias Sajid, 43, a qazi staying in Old Santoshnagar Colony, Syed Shanawaz, 50, a marriage broker of Riyasatnagar, his sister Mumtaz Begum, 40, Mohammed Zaheeruddin, 50, a chief qazi of Nacharam and M.A. Rasheed, 33, a nayab qazi of Nallagutta were arrested. Police also registered cases against the Omani grooms identified as Yousuf Bin Salim Thani Al Busadi who married Nazia and Mohammed Bin Salim Al Busadi who married Sameena. The marriage was performed in the absence of the grooms. Only their photographs were present.
Nazia left for Oman on September 27. âA day later she called up and said that her husband was a mad man,â said her mother. âHe is torturing my daughter.â Police said the Indian Embassy in Oman has been informed of the plight of the girls.
âOur priority is to bring them back to India,â said inspector Sai Krishna.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->