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Raped woman ordered to treat husband as son

Raped woman ordered to treat husband as son

Author: Vijaita Singh/Aloke Sharma
Publication: The pioneer
Date: June 15, 2005

Fathom this: A woman becoming the mother of her own husband. This is not a reel-life drama, but a real-life incident involving a hapless woman who was raped by her father-in-law. Later, she was forced to leave her husband and live outside her house.

This bizarre order was pronounced by the panchayat of the Ansari community last Saturday after the shocking episode was bought to its notice.

The reprehensible incident took place in Charthawal town of Muzzafarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh. The woman, Imrana, was raped by her father-in-law when her husband had gone out for work.

Imrana narrated her tale of horror to her husband, Noor Elahi, a rickshaw-puller. To her dismay, Elahi preferred to remain silent because he was scared of his father. Unable to get her husband's support, she thought it better to leave her house and went to her brother's place in Kukra village under the New Mandi police station area.

When the incident came to the notice of the Ansari community panchayat, it branded the husband and wife as son and mother and also asked Imrana to stay out of her husband's home for seven months and ten days so that she earns pakeeziat (purity).

Though the panchayat decided to register a police case against Ali Muhammad, the rapist father-in-law of Imrana, it maintained that she would have to compulsorily stay away from her husband's home for the stipulated period.

The decision was reached in the presence of Imam of Madarsa Ashraf-ul-Uloom and that of Bhorewaali Masjid's Maulana Shamim Ahmad. According to the clerics, Sharia (Islamic law) stipulates that under the situation, Elahi and Imrana would become son and mother as the latter was forced into intercourse with former's father. "Since the provision of talaq is automatic, Imrana is free to marry anybody after the period of pakeeziat, except her former husband, Noor Elahi," the clerics pronounced.

The matter has been forwarded by the Ansari panchayat to the apex body on Sharia matters, Dar-ul-Uloom, located at Deoband. The victim is staying with her brothers, Dilshad, Imran, Sajid and Wajid, and they have agreed with the decision of the panchayat.

Amid the furore, the most-affected person, Imrana, has been sidelined, sent into seven months and ten days of pakeeziat.

Sources said Imrana had expressed her wish to stay with Elahi if he came out of his father's house. But the Ansari panchayat declined her request.
 


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