Love marriage: young woman married off to another man without divorce by first husband

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By Zulfiqar Ahmad
ISLAMABAD: In a glaring example of bigotry and scant regard to the law, a married young woman from Gohkir village was married off to another man in Durngah, a nearby village, without getting a divorce from her legal husband. This was done on the advice and pressure of a local cleric, the lawyer of the woman’s husband told ChitralToday.
The woman had contracted love marriage with the man belonging to the Lon village in 2016. She belongs to the Sunni school of thought while the man is from the Ismaili community.
But the inter-sect marriage, which is neither new nor un-Islamic anywhere in the world, was challenged by a local cleric who orchestrated a mob attack on the house of the Ismaili man and forcibly took away her wife, said Gul Murad Khan Advocate.
Mr Khan, who is the counsel for the young man, told ChitralToday that in order to get back his wife his client had filed a petition with the Civil Judge Booni which was still under litigation.
But three days ago, he said, the woman contacted her husband on telephone and pleaded him to end her agony and take her to his home at all costs. According to the lawyer, this was no less than a rebirth for the dejected bridegroom who along with his father immediately rushed to a place where the bride was waiting for him.
Call it their bad luck or whatever they were intercepted again by the family of the woman and some clerics of the area who succeeded to snatch away her from them after beating the husband and his father.
The family of the woman then managed the registration of a kidnapping case against the father of her husband who is now in jail on judicial remand. Things did not stop here as the clerics forcibly married off the already married woman to another man at gunpoint the same day.
This left the family of the young man with no option but to report the incident to the station house officer (SHO) Mulkhow Iqbal Hussain, who is still reluctant to register an FIR against the culprits, which according the counsel was being done under pressure from the clerics.
When contacted by ChitralToday, SHO Iqbal Hussain came up with an interesting logic and said the issue was quite sensitive due to which he had moved an application with the civil judge Booni requesting him to allow the police to hold an inquiry into the matter before registering an FIR, which the court permitted.
“After consulting the SDPO (subdivisional police officer) and legal aides, I moved an application to the civil judge Booni, seeking permission for an inquiry into the matter before registering an FIR on the complaint of the husband of the woman as it is a sensitive issue,” he added.
But the counsel for the man made it clear that his client was married to the woman under the Islamic law, and there were witnesses from both the Ismaili and Sunni communities to the Nikah and no law can nullify it no matter what, adding the couple tied the knot on their free will and a cleric had no right to impose his will on them.
12 Comments
  1. Qasim says

    It is admitted fact that cases both sides are pending before the Courts. But without touching facts and realities it is also against law and Sharia to contract second marriage when the first Nikah is disputed in Courts. This is not a new and strange incident that girl has denied the first Nikah but these have became fashion and trends that in our society girls are contracting Nikah without the consent of their parents and after the Nikah when the parents and influential forced the boy or girl they are changing their stances and record statements against each others. I think in this case this trend has repeated. But taking law in hands is against Sharia liable to be punished as per law of land.

  2. Ghaffor Ahmad says

    @akhtar; You mean in that case Hashwani was involved, therefore, that marriage contract had no validity or in other words you want to say “might is right?” If so I just want say, “hats off” to your thinking!

  3. M Fawad says

    When the issue is in the court, there is no point to rekindle it. Let the court to decide in the best interest of the area.

  4. Akhtar Lonvi says

    @Ghafoor. I am well aware of the Afghan girl’s controversy and you must not link this incident with that of the Afgani girl. Did you why Hashwani took so much interest in that case? Why she was then allowed to stay in Marriott till she was sent off to Canada? Also the boy was asked to divorce the girl at gun point and then she was was sent off to Canada. In this particular case, the boy has not DIVORCED the girl. He has challenged the issue in the court and the court is yet to give its verdict. The family of the girl has failed to present witnesses to prove that the the nikahnama was fabricated. Let me repeat that girl is legally married to the boy and marrying her off to another boy is in no way ACCEPTABLE. If you think you are that influential like Hashwani, you should have forced the boy to divorce the girl first and then marry her off to whoever you like.

  5. Akhtar Lonvi says

    Does Islam permits to marry off a married woman? And here in this case it is quite clear that the boy has gone to court because he has evidence to prove his nikkah with the woman otherwise you cannot knock the doors of the court? I would like to request learned religious scholars to intervene and settle the matter.

  6. Akhtar Lonvi says

    @Ghafor: Let us suppose you are so much concerned about the two communities. But could you explain the case which is still pending before the civil judge in Booni, where the lawyer of the boy has also produced the nikahnama? can you deny that the movi is not involved in issuing fatwa that married woman can remarry?

    1. Ghaffor Ahmad says

      @Akhtar, let’s wait for the statement of the girl, Nikahnama can b fabricated. The final choice of the girl must b asked before the court and the decision will b made accordingly.
      Let me take u back to 2007 and refresh ur memory, in a similiar case an Ismaili girl belonging to the Hazara tribe of Afghanistan by the name of Nilofer, used to work in a flower shop at Marriot Hotel Islamabad fell in love with a Sunni boy from Punjab and fled with him after carrying out a proper marriage contract. Ismaili community approached Sadruddin Hashwani (owner of PC Hotels) and the later utilised all all his power in mobilizing Punjab Police to hunt the most wanted person, whose sole crime was to fall in love with a girl belonging to Ismaili community. The search lasted for two months at a stretch and the poor guy was traced and thrown behind the bar. The girl was forcibly taken away and was sent to Canada. Now tell me guys which Molvi was involved in this incident, and what stopped u in criticising it?

  7. Ghaffor Ahmad says

    As far as I know about this case, the girl had disowned herself from the first marriage on the very second day of her marriage saying it was a forceful marriage and against her will. A few days ago the father of the same boy who with some others, made another attempt to abduct her. Upon this people of the area taking timely action intercepted their vehicle and rescued the girl. The girl was married to another boy from a nearby village upon her consent.
    I request to the admin of this site not to post such news which are baseless and far from reality and may create hatred between the two communities.

    1. Javed Hayat says

      If the girl had disowned her first marriage with the boy, why she did not go to court to seek Khula? This was the legal way and she would have been given khula without any hurdle.

  8. Muhammad Zakir says

    sharoom karo,,,,,kash yi kisi police walay ka beta hota tu karavayi hota.

  9. SR Khan says

    Marrying a womam with another person without taking divorce from the present husband. No law allows it. The police is protecting those involved by not registering a case and not taking action against those involved.
    This is the problem of police in Chitral, which is expected to enforce the law without biases but it acts according to its own sectarian affiliation.

  10. Javeed Akbar Islamabad says

    Ham ek asi dunia ma rahta han Jahan hamain muhabat chup chup kar karni parti ha.jabka ham tashaddut din dahara karta han.
    Ham appreciation karta han chitraltoday management ki qanun ki bala dasty kalia ke gae es kawish ko. Wel done chitraltoday

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