Hindu underage lady ‘forcibly converted and married off’ in Tharparkar
Ravita Meghwadh and her father Syed Nawaz Ali Shah. PHOTO: EXPRESS
HYDERABAD: The family of an underage Hindu lady from Tharparkar has claimed that she was kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to a Muslim man. The lady and her husband, however, have filed a petition in Sindh High Court seeking insurance and dogmatic a acclimatisation and matrimony consensual.
Ravita Meghwadh, a teenager, reportedly converted to Islam on Jun 6 and altered her name to Gulnaz. On a same day, she married Syed Nawaz Ali Shah during a matrimony registrar’s bureau in kinship legislature Samaro in Umerkot, according to Shah and his family.
However, Ravita’s family denies this and has indicted Shah of abduction her.
“She was abducted from her residence and forcibly married to a male twice her age,” pronounced her father Satram alias Satio Meghwadh who lodged a FIR of a abduction during Nano Dandal military hire in Nangarparkar, Tharparkar 4 days ago.
The FIR lodged underneath Section 365-B of Pakistan Penal Code, that deals with abduction to enforce a lady to marry opposite her will, names 4 people: Shah (the husband), Madad Ali Shah, Umar Junejo and Sheru Junejo.
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The family claims Ravita is underage formed on a primary propagandize certificate, that mentions her date of birth as Jul 14, 2001, creation her about 16 years old.
The propagandize withdrawal certificate accessible with The Express Tribune
Ravita’s brother-in-law, Lajpat Meghwadh, who married her elder sister on Apr 29 this year said:“My mother is hardly 18 years old. How can her younger sister be an adult?”
Interestingly, a matrimony registrar has mentioned Shah’s year of birth as 1980, and inhabitant temperament label series on a matrimony certificate, though Ravita’s age has been created as “approximately 18” and her NIC series not mentioned. Similarly, a certificate of acclimatisation to Islam also does not discuss her date of birth and NIC number, listing her age as “approximately 18.”
Certificate of acclimatisation accessible with The Express Tribune
Lajpat purported that Ravita was kidnapped to force a Meghwadh family to leave a village.
“Our family has only 4 houses in a village. Some group from Syed and Junejo communities, who browbeat a encampment population, kidnapped her and asked us to leave a encampment by some intermediaries,” he claimed.
Lajpat serve pronounced that Ravita didn’t use a dungeon phone and that she had remained limited to a residence after completing her primary education. “Unlike other women, she never left home to fetch H2O from a good or worked as a lassie in anyone’s home,” he said.
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Shah could not be reached for his version. However, he and his mother told a internal media in Kunri, Umerkot that they married of their giveaway will and indicted a Meghwadh family of arising threats to Shah and his family.
Advocate Bhagwandas told The Express Tribune that a Meghwadh family is also filing a petition in Sindh High Court opposite a marriage. He pronounced a matrimony was solemnised in defilement of Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act, 2013, that was upheld by Sindh Assembly in Apr 2014.
The law restricts a registration of marriages of people next 18 years of age. An corruption underneath this act is cognisable, non-bailable and non-compoundable with a punishment of adult to 3 years in jail for a groom, chairman solemnising such matrimony and even a family of a male and lady restraining a knot.
According to a internal military station’s SHO Qurban Rajpar, a military are not impediment people nominated in a FIR since of a SHC’s notice.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1437300/hindu-underage-girl-forcibly-converted-married-off-tharparkar/