Girl 'rescued' from father's clutches

KOLKATA: Md Jalaluddin knew that he was courting trouble when he married his sweetheart against her family''s wishes.
What he did not know was that he would have to approach the court to get his wife ''freed'' from the clutches of her family.
On Friday, 10th Metropolitan Magistrate Asima Pal ordered the Park Street police to initiate criminal proceedings against Jalaluddin''s inlaws and also to rescue his wife from their clutches and produce her before the court.
Jalaluddin, a graduate, is a small transporter from Miajan Ostagar Lane in the Kareya police station area.
He fell in love with 25-year old Shawar, daughter of Royd Street hotelier Md Shahid Shamim. Jalaluddin approached Shamim, seeking Shawar''s hand in marriage. The girl''s father, however, rejected the match.
Soon after this, Shawar eloped with Jalaluddin and the two got married in Tiljala on May 16. A few days later, Shawar''s brother Sajid called up the newly-married couple and invited them over to Royd Street for a get together.
On June 28, when the couple went for the get-together, they were in for a surprise. Led by Sajid and his brother Asif, a gang of 20 miscreants attacked the couple.
While Shawar was dragged into her father''s house and locked up, Jalaluddin was assaulted.
The young man went to the Park Street police station but was turned away as Shamim wielded a lot of clout, both politically and otherwise. The officers told him to approach the court, instead.
When Jalaluddin''s relatives approached Shamim with a plea to consider the match, they too were heckled and thrown out of the area.
Finally, Jalaluddin, through advocate Subroto Mookherjee filed a complaint before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
In court, he also produced a ''Nikaahnama''. On Friday, the magistrate ruled in favour of the young couple.