Hindu Girl Falsely Married and then Feared Sold by Muslim Zealots

Victim -Madhumita Haldar d/o Aloka and Shambucharan Haldar.
Village: Bhadropara, Police Station: Raidighi
Dist: South 24 Paraganas,
W Bengal, India

Perpetrator
Habil Sheikh s/o Ishaq Sheikh
Uncle Palan Sheikh and Ninnuki Sheikh

Polie report, Feb 2007
Ninnuki Sheikh, based in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, was visiting Ishaq Sheikh at Bhadropara and approached Aloka Haldar with a marriage proposal. He offered Madhumita a good life after marriage with his nephew Habil Sheikh’s friend Pappu, who lived in Rampur. The Hindu family was cajoled into believing the groom/party were Hindus.

Aloka
and Shambucharan, living in poverty, were ecstatic to find a suitable
man, who would support and marry their daughter. Madhumita was married
to Pappu at the local Hindu temple. Thereafter the newly married couple left for Rampur by Jammu Tawai express.

After
a few months, when Aloka and Shambucharan went to visit their daughter
and her husband they were surprised by the conversation they had with
the neighbors. Some people offered them money to buy their daughter.
This alarmed the Haldars and they returned to Rampur after two months
only to find their daughter missing. Repeated efforts to locate their
daughter came to nought. The Haldars sold off their meagre holdings and
went back to Rampur, only to find their daughter missing. Madhumita
made a phone call to her parents and told that she has been sold by her
husband at a price of Rs.50,000. Her parents have no phone of their
own. So, Madhumita called to a village booth. No trace has been found
of Madhumita since, and her parents have spent their life’s savings to
search for their missing daughter. Their efforts to launch police reports and appeal to the Local Muslim Panchayat of Rampur brought no results.

We request readers to call up the following number to enquire about the progress of this case.

Ajay Ranade, Superintendent of Police, South 24 Parganas +91-9830885233

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