Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (EP)
Udupi, Oct 12: A woman was reportedly driven out from her house by her husband and his demanding additional dowry.
Hajira Banu (30), resident of Gundyadka, Karkala in her complaint to Udupi women’s police station, stated that she had got married to Ibrahim as per Muslim traditions at Hapsa, Udyavar on May 30, 2019. The girl’s family had given to the boy’s family Rs three lac cash and twenty sovereign gold as dowry as demanded by the groom’s family.
Hajira was staying in the house of her husband at Karamballi, Santhoshnagar after the marriage. However, the husband and his family members Fatima, Nazeer, Mohammed Iqbal, Sahil Hameed and Ismail were inflicting mental and physical agony on her, demanding dowry, alleged Hajira in her complaint. The accused also hurled expletives on her, threatened and got her unborn child aborted by force when she was pregnant for her second child, she said. Hajira has been driven out of home now when she is four months pregnant.
A police case under section 42/2019 column 498(A), 313, 504, 506 and IPC 34 column 3, 4 DP Act was registered at Udupi women’s police station on the basis of the complaint lodged by Hajira.