Wednesday January 6, 2010
Accusing his in-laws of illegal confinement of his wife, a man in an inter-religion wedlock, has filed a habeas corpus petition in the Bombay High Court seeking its intervention to secure her return to their home in suburban Chandivali.
The 26-year-old petitioner from Bihar, Ravi Tiwari, has alleged he has been asked by his in-laws to convert to Islam and pay Rs five lakh to them in return for his wife.
Tiwari said he was ready to convert to Islam but he did not have the money to pay to his wife's family.
The petitioner said he fell in love with Sabeena Langoo, 22, in Pune where he had gone to study MBA. Sabeena's father had a business in the neighbourhood, he said.
The duo fell in love and wanted to get married but Tiwari faced opposition from Sabeena's family. Her parents took her to a place in Kashmir and wanted to get her married to someone else. But Sabeena escaped and returned to Mumbai where she tied the knot with Tiwari in October last year.
As Sabeena's parents pressurised her to return to her family home, she filed a petition two months back in the High Court asking for protection from her family. The court granted her relief while directing the couple to report to Chandivali police station regularly to inform about her whereabouts.
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