BLEAK FUTURE: Surayya Begum and Syed Mustafa narrating the events leading to the marriage of their daughters with two mentally-challenged Omani nationals. — Photo: Md. Yousuf

HYDERABAD: This Ramzan would usher in better times, believed the two families when they married their woman members to two Omani nationals two months ago. But fate shattered their dreams, as the newly-wed young women called up from Oman saying their husbands are "mentally- challenged".

"I don't mind if she dies soon after landing here but the fact of she suffering in an alien land in the hands of lunatic is paining me more," cried Syed Mustafa while speaking to The Hindu on Wednesday.

His 21-year-old daughter and another woman, Nazia, 22, both from Bhavaninagar area in old city, were married to twins - Mohammed and Yousuf on July 16 of this year.

Another Omani national Al Hosni, who flew to Hyderabad, took the new brides to Oman on September 26.

The next day, the two women rang up saying both their husbands are epileptics, fall unconscious all of a sudden and are subjecting them to cruelty. Shocked, Mustafa and Nazia's widow mother, Suraiah, approached the Santoshnagar police. Though police arrested two local agents and three Qazis and remanded them in judicial custody on Wednesday, family members are worried about the fate of Begum and Nazia.

If poverty drove Mustafa, a TV mechanic, and Suraiah, a maid, to marry their daughters to foreigners, the lie told by Hosni that the bridegrooms were `Baldia employees' made them accept the matches. So desperate were they that the marriages were performed with photographs of the bridegrooms. Begum made a frantic call again on Tuesday saying the torture was beyond her endurance. She said her husband confined her in a room, tried to strangle and jump on her abdomen. Shaken, Mustafa rang up Hosni but the latter demanded Rs.75,000 for their release. It is learnt Al Hosni used to frequently visit Hyderabad. He married two women from old city but deserted them.

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