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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Nov 25: Aadhunik Human Rights Committee led by its state president Rajesh Coelho and Dakshina Kannada district president Shabbir Ullal, alleged that Asia Joobi Asiya Ibrahim Khaleel Kattekar, wife of Ibrahim Khaleel Kattekar, has been forcibly kept away from her husband by Ibrahim Khaleel's elder brother Shihab and other family members, who have been forcing Ibrahim Khaleel Kattekar to stay away from his wife.
Shanthi Joobi is from Kannur, Kerala. She had got to know Ibrahim Khaleel Kattekar, son of Abdul Haji Kattekar through Facebook. After the two came to know each other well, their Nikah was performed on July 12, 2017. After marriage, Shanthi Joobi changed her name to Asiya Ibrahim Khaleel Kattekkar. The couple stayed at various rented houses in Bengaluru, Mysuru etc.
After they came to know about the marriage of Ibrahim, his elder brother Shihab, and others took Asiya's husband away to their house at Sullia, duly asking Asiya to stay at Bengaluru. Thereafter, they stayed away from her. When Asiya tried to contact her husband, the family members threatened to kill him, it is said. Both sides met and held discussions at Puttur and Sullia police stations but their problems have not been resolved. Asiya says that her husband has been concealed somewhere and his mobile has been switched off. She says that when she went to her husband's family home, she was threatened with murder by Shihab. Efforts made by several organisations to help her also failed.
Asiya has alleged that Shihab has been sending obscene messages to her. Asiya says that as per his demand, money was given several times exceeding Rs 25 lac in addition to two luxury cars and two scooters. Still, the family is not happy and continues to inflict mental torture, Asiya says, and repeats the allegation that she has been kept away from her husband.
Asiya has now approached the media seeking their help in get united with her husband, Ibrahim Khaleel Kattekar and help her to lead a married life with him.