‘Fake marriage’: bride flees with cash, jewellery

Report filed against suspects who brought proposal, arranged wedding

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A bride allegedly fled the groom's house along with cash, jewellery and expensive clothes after a fake marriage.

Police registered a case and started a search for the accused.

Imran, son of Niyamt Ali, a resident of village 95RB, filed a report stating that Abdul Jabbar had brought a marriage proposal for him of Atiq's daughter from Feroz Watwan. He informed the police that two other suspects, Qurban and Shahida Parveen, were also involved in arranging the marriage.

The complainant said the accused took Rs100,000 for buying the bride's clothes as well as two tolas of gold and 10 dresses.

The bride stayed with the groom for a night after the wedding and left the next day.

It was later revealed that the accused had conducted a fake marriage and had not registered it with the local union council.

The complainant said the accused fraudulently staged the marriage ceremony and then fled with the cash, jewellery and other belongings.

The police registered a case against the accused under Section 420 of the Penal Code and started a search for them.

In another case of marriage fraud, Lahore police on October 20 arrested two men on charges of robbing a bride’s family of valuables after marrying her fraudulently.

The arrests were made after the Lahore High Court dismissed the bail applications of the suspects.

As the judge denied bail to the two accused, they tried to escape from the court premises but the investigation officer of the case called the police officials present in other courtrooms, who caught them.

Reportedly, the accused had formed a gang in Sargodha and they used to impersonate government officers.

They used to quarrel with the brides over petty issues within a month after marriage. The gang had reportedly been active in other districts also and had looted several families in Sargodha.

On August 30, a man lodged a case of fraud after his bride was taken away under suspicious circumstances while they were on the way home after their wedding.

After the victim Muhammad Aslam was approached to get married, he gave the accused Zia Rs480,000 at different times for arranging the wedding.

Zia asked Aslam to bring the baraat for the marriage ceremony. When he went to Sajanpura with the baraat, the accused along with a woman demanded Rs38,000 more and then got him married. The accused sent the bride with him.

When their vehicle reached a petrol pump near Islampura, the bride, Shazia, daughter of Jamal Din, resident of Farooqabad, asked the driver to stop as she had to go to the washroom. When she came out from the car, two armed motorcyclists took her away with them.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 24^th, 2020.