80-year-old Arab buys Indian bride for Rs 10 k (about 200 USD)

[asim99]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/a...ow/1422414.cms (pop-up warning, click at your own risk)

> HYDERABAD: In a replay of an oft-recurring tale, an octogenarian Arab
> groom acquired a 27-year-old Indian bride from Hyderabad by paying a measly
> Rs 10,000. The groom and his accomplices have been arrested.
>
> Mohammed Ahmed Al-Marfai, his two friends Khalid Juma Al-Sabri and Isa Juma
> Ali Al-Balushi and a Muslim cleric Qazi Mehmood Qureshi, who had performed
> the marriage were taken into custody by the police in Jawaharpur, Chowni
> Naad Ali Baig in the Muslim-majority old city after the girl raised an
> alarm.
>
> According to Sandeep Shandilya, Deputy Commissioner of Police, south zone,
> Al-Marfai had landed in the city two days ago and was staying at a lodge in
> Talab Katta area. He had allegedly paid Rs.10,000 to Ahmed Bin Salam and
> Sabira Begum of Nawab Sab Kunta area to marry their daughter.
>
> Inquiries revealed that Ahmed Bin Salam is physically handicapped and has 10
> children including nine girls. Five of his daughters are unmarried.
>
> Al-Marfai's passport shows his age as 59. A case has been registered against
> him and the three others at the Rein Bazar police station.
>
> Citizens of Oman and Saudi Arabia are required to obtain a no-objection
> certificate from their governments before marrying foreigners, but he had no
> such permission, police said.
>
>
> The incident once again reveals how Muslim girls from poor families
> continue to be married to old Arabs despite the Wakf Board threatening
> Muslim clerics officiating in such marriages with strict action.
>
> Awareness campaigns have also been launched by voluntary organisations.
>
> In most of these cases, the girls are married to men who are their
> grandfather's age.
>
> Impoverished parents are lured with money or dreams of their daughter
> entering prosperous wedlock. They get a rude shock when unscrupulous Arabs
> abandon them after spending one or a few nights with them. These people
> invariably ditch the brides and return to their countries.
>
> In August last year, two minor girls were married to a middle-aged Arab
> from the UAE in one sitting by a cleric. However, the girls escaped from his
> clutches. The Arab, Shaik Al Rahama Ismail Mirza Abdul Jabbar fled the
> country. Police had then arrested the cleric and the broker and claimed that
> the marriage racket had international ramifications.
>
> In September 2004, Hyderabad Police had rescued 15-year-old Praveen in
> Mumbai and arrested two nationals from Oman - Omer Sayeed and Nasser Hameed
> Mohanned, both aged 60.
>
> Praveen, daughter of a fruit vendor was married to the 53-year-old Omani
> national Mahather Hameed Abdullah al-Ghailani, who promised to take her to
> Oman. After spending four days in the city, the Omani husband took the girl
> to Mumbai. However, he deserted her and left for Oman, leaving her in the
> care of his two friends.
>
> Earlier in May, 2004, Jafar Hasan Al-Zagrani, 73 of UAE was arrested after
> he married 19-year-old Haseena. She had complained to the police that he
> ditched her after marriage. Investigations revealed that he had married
> another girl from Hyderabad.
>
> In 1991, the case of a girl child's marriage with an elderly Arab had
> shocked the nation. Amina, 14, was found weeping by an airhostess on a
> Hyderabad-Delhi flight. Her 60-year-old Arab husband was taking her to Saudi
> Arabia. When the airhostess alerted the police the Arab was arrested and the
> girl was rescued.

[frugalman]

another sad story.. about sick people

[Boss_Scorpius]

It's really sad to hear. It was sometime back when there was a news about a child abduction ring in Iran, young Iranian women were kidnapped and sold in UAE to rich arabs.

[d_jedi]

> According to Sandeep Shandilya, Deputy Commissioner of Police, south zone,
> Al-Marfai had landed in the city two days ago and was staying at a lodge in
> Talab Katta area. He had allegedly paid Rs.10,000 to Ahmed Bin Salam and
> Sabira Begum of Nawab Sab Kunta area to marry their daughter.

Wait.. so they sold their daughter, essentially, into prostitution?
Sickening.