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Indifference alleged in dowry case

Staff Reporter

Senior citizen vents ire over police and passport authorities' indifference towards his daughter's dowry harassment case

HYDERABAD: Already angst-ridden at the agony his daughter was going through, Mohd. Moinuddin, a senior citizen and resident of Toli Chowki is now shocked, courtesy the appalling indifference of the passport authorities here.

Mr. Moinuddin had lodged a complaint with the Central Crime Station in July 2005 against his son-in-law Mohd Sharif, alleging that the latter was harassing his daughter for dowry. CCS, he says, registered a criminal case and a non-bailable warrant was pending with the police for Sharif's arrest.

Wrong address

However, things took a shocking twist earlier this month when Moinuddin received a show-cause notice from the Hyderabad Passport Office. The notice actually meant for Sharif asking why his passport should not be impounded since a NBW as pending against him, was sent "accidentally" to Mr. Moinuddin's address! Mr. Moinuddin has now sent the notice back to the Passport Office, along with a letter requesting them to issue the notice to the correct address of Sharif in Jeddah. The old mantold The Hindu that he had married his daughter to Sharif, a resident of Kacheguda working as a system analyst in Jeddah.

Compromise

"I spent over Rs.3 lakhs on the wedding and gave five tolas of gold. But they started harassing my daughter, abusing her and asking for dowry. She was staying with her in-laws at Kacheguda at that time, and unable to bear the harassment, she came back to me in June last year," he said. Though Mr. Moinuddin tried to reconcile his daughter with her husband, Sharif has not come to take her to Jeddah as he had agreed during a compromise meeting last year.

"Even the police are indifferent. I alerted them when Sharif came here in July this year, but they did not move. Instead, they wrote a letter to the Passport Office, that too in August after he had left, asking them to impound his passport. And those people, after waiting for another three months, have sent the show-cause notice to him in my address!" he fumes.

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