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Kashmiri woman wants to go back

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CUTTACK: The statements of Kashmiri woman Nazia Banu, who has been in a short-stay home in Bhubaneswar since October last, were recorded on Wednesday by Bhubaneswar SDJM. Magistrate Arun Kumar Sahu recorded her statements under Section 164 of CrPC as per the direction of the Orissa High Court.

Nazia alias Shehenaz told the magistrate that she now wants to go back to her husband Md. Yusuf as he promised that he would not torture her anymore.

She also told the magistrate that the Oriya migrant worker with whom she fled Kashmir was innocent and had no role in her escape from the claws of her husband.

The 28-year-old Muslim woman and a mother of four children had fled her husband’s home in Kashmir and landed in Orissa on October 16, 2007 with the help of one Oriya migrant worker Digamber Bisoi. The local police arrested the woman and Bisoi on the strength of an NBW issued by a Kashmir court. Since then Nazia is staying in the Ruchika short-stay home in Bhubaneswar while Bisoi is lodged in a local jail.

Banu had refused to go back to her husband alleging that he was regularly torturing her. She had even moved the Orissa High Court with the help of a local NGO pleading to be allowed to stay in Orissa.

While the HC was hearing Nazia’s case, the woman last week changed her mind and made yet another petition urging the HC to allow her to go back to her husband.

On the second plea of the woman, the HC had directed the Bhubaneswar SDJM to record the petitioner’s statement. Accordingly, Nazia was produced before the court of SDJM. She told the magistrate that she now wants to go back to her husband.

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