The Hyderabad Police busted Women, girl trafficking for Marriage

The Hyderabad Police has made two separate raids in old city area and arrested nine people, including two Bahrain nationals, qazi (cleric), a lodge owner and five brokers and two women for their alleged involvement in international trafficking of women and minor girls for ‘marriage’ .

Hyderabad has become a hot-spot for Arabs and Sheiks to get minor girls on the name of marriage and then abandon them.

Deputy commissioner of police (south zone) V Satyanarayana said police were on lookout for the traffickers after a complaint from one Kulsum Begum on October 30 who said that a 50-year-old Bahraini national named Mohamed Mahmood Abdul Rehman Mahmood had married her second daughter Sameena Begum (29) in May this year but sent her back later.

The marriage was performed by qazi Askar Ali Rafai at the city’s King Koti locality.

“After marriage they took her daughter to Bahrain, treated her as maid servant and after fulfilling their sexual desires they sent her back,” the DCP said.

A few days ago, Rehman Mahmood and his brother Yousuf Mahmood Abdul Rahman Mahmood Khairi came to Hyderabad again with same intention. But by then the police had increased their surveillance. The qazi was planning to solemnize the marriage at Tolichowki on the outskirts of the city on Friday. The Bahraini nationals were staying at a nearby lodge named Safa Tower owned by Mohammed Barkathullah Sharif.

Based on a tip off, the police raided the lodge and arrested the Bahrain nationals, the qazi and lodge owner and rescued the girl.