Srinagar- Three days earlier than his wedding ceremony, Waseem Raja Mughal’s world crumbled. The Bhaderwah-born actor, his coronary heart brimming with pre-wedding jitters and pleasure, waited in useless for his bride, Damini Bhajanka, Mumbai-based disc jockey, also called DJ Dionne.
Mughal had eagerly counted down the times till their wedding ceremony in Mumbai, envisioning a future stuffed with love and laughter. But, simply as their union appeared imminent, Bhajanka disappeared and not using a hint. No goodbye observe, no frantic telephone name, only a deafening silence that screamed one thing much more sinister than chilly ft.
Six years in the past, Mughal, 39 crossed paths with Bhajanka, 27 in Mumbai, each fell in love with one another and have been dwelling fortunately collectively.
Keen on appearing from his childhood, Mughal tried his luck in a lot of small-time dramas and movies in Mumbai.
“I’ve labored in a lot of serials and net collection for the final 12 years,” he advised Kashmir Observer.
“I made a decision to marry the love of my life. However little did I do know that I must undergo quite a few trials and tribulations to unite together with her,” Mughal added.In December final yr, the couple determined to get married with the consent of their households at a wedding registration workplace in Mumbai. Nevertheless, the woman’s mother and father referred to as her dwelling in Gauhati beneath the pretext of necessary work. Upon reaching dwelling, Bhajanka was allegedly kidnapped by relations and forcefully admitted to a drug rehab middle in Assam towards her needs.
“For over three months, I had no thought about her. I lodged complaints in police stations, filed petitions in courts however nobody was serving to me,” Mughal advised Kashmir Observer.
Mughal emphasised that regardless of Bhajanka not being a drug addict, she was held captive in a rehabilitation middle for 3 months, the place she allegedly endured bodily and psychological abuse. He added that he filed a criticism with the Nationwide Fee of Ladies on January third.
In response to Mughal, her brother reportedly cancelled her DJ gigs and even returned a 50,000 rupee advance fee to an organizer on her behalf.
“I used to protest on the streets of Mumbai alone for 3 months and I didn’t give-up,” Mughal mentioned.
Bhanjaka advised a information web site, “I used to be surrounded by drug addicts, alcoholics and criminals. I’d keep up all night time afraid that any of them might come and harm me bodily.”
She added that she had been prohibited from assembly any relations for over six weeks. After roughly 40 days, her maternal uncle lastly visited her. She recounted pleading with him to take her again dwelling, however he adamantly refused, stating with pleasure that that they had prevented her from marrying a Muslim man.
After some media organizations in Assam picked-up the story, Bhajanka’s household quietly moved her to a resort in Shillong the place she managed to name him from a telephone.
Her household, based on Mughal, requested her to make a video saying that she had been dwelling fortunately with them for the final three months.
“I knowledgeable the police instantly and so they raided the resort and rescued her on 12 March,” he mentioned, including, “her household didn’t wish to get her married to a muslim man.”
Regardless of Mughal’s repeated makes an attempt to get assist from the authorities, together with submitting stories with the Dispur police and the Nationwide Fee for Ladies, there was no progress at first. The Assam police, based on the stories, referred to as it a “household difficulty” and referred to as the DJ a drug addict—a declare that the couple contested.
On reaching Mumbai, the couple determined to marry with out losing additional time and tied the knot on 21 March. “We try to lodge a zero FIR towards the household,” he added.
In her data to police, Bhajanka mentioned that she bought married Mughal based on Muslim rites and customs together with her “free want and with none stress, coercion”
“…However my mother and father are towards this marriage. I state that I left my mother and father dwelling with my very own free will and consent with out taking any money and jewellery, I’ve solely my very own fabric, which I put on,” reads the knowledge to police.
It additional requests police to inform them if her mother and father file any complaints towards her or her husband concerning their marriage.
Mughal mentioned his spouse has willingly transformed and they’re dwelling with none concern now. “She is now named Aleeza,” Mughal mentioned.
Rights advocates condemn Bhajanka’s involuntary confinement as a critical violation of her basic freedoms. Undeterred, the couple vows to proceed their authorized struggle till they see justice for the ordeal they’ve endured.
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