Woman goes to court over ‘forged’ nikkah

Seeks FIR against man who got her married to someone else twice

LAHORE: A woman has gone to court against her ‘husband’, accusing him of fraudulently marrying her off to other men twice while pretending to be marrying her.

The petitioner has filed a plea in a district and sessions court of Lahore, seeking an order to register a police case against a man named Qasim Ali, who pretended to be her husband but had put someone else’s name on the nikkahnama.



In her petition, the woman stated that she was friends with Qasim, who wanted to marry her but her family objected to the marriage.

The suspect, she alleged, coaxed her into contracting a court marriage and took her to a place where some of his friends acted as their witnesses for the nikkah. They made her sign some papers and assured her she was then the wife of Qasim.

While the couple started living together, a few weeks later she read the marriage contract, which mentioned the name of her husband as Shehzad.

When she argued with him, Qasim tendered an apology and suggested taking a divorce from Shehzad through court so they could finally get married.

On her persistence, he took her to Okara where he once again fraudulently solemnised her nikkah with another man.

When she learned about the fake husband a few days later, she argued with Qasim who then forced her into prostitution. The man along with his friends was also accused of raping the petitioner.



Finally, the woman came to her mother’s house and went to the area police station to register a case which the police refused.

The petitioner requested the court to direct the SHO to register FIR against her husband and his friends. 

Published in The Express Tribune, September 21^st, 2016.