Hyderabad, Jul 23 (DHNS): The city police here have reunited a mother with her two daughters who were left in Dubai way back in 1981 after her UAE-based husband divorced her and sent her back to India. The south zone police helped the two daughters find their mother by searching records of Qazi office.
According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, V Satyanarayana who played an important role in uniting the family, Nazia Begum (60) from Santoshnagar was married to a United Arab Emirates( UAE) national Rasheed Eid Obaid Rifaq Masmari in 1981 at a Qazi’s office in old city. After a few years of marriage, she left for UAE.
Her husband lived in Fujairah province in UAE. As he was already married to a woman, Nazia faced immense problems after she joined her husband. Nevertheless, she lived there for around four years and had two daughters Ayesha Rasheed eid Obaid alias Kanoo Rasheed and Fatima Rasheed eid Obaid. Unfortunately, Nazia’s husband Rasheed forcibly divorced her following household disputes after which she was handed over a flight ticket to India and sent away. He did not allow Nazia to take her daughters along. After two years, Nazia’s parents married her to a fruit vendor from Bidar in Karnataka. While she was living with her family in Bidar, her daughters Kanoo Rasheed and Fatima Rasheed eid Obaid who are now aged 29 years and 26 years respectively came to Hyderabad in search of their mother, after their ailing father handed over details of their mother and breathed his last.
In January, both of them approached the police. The women brought along with them a photograph of their mother. Pamphlets and posters were printed and circulated all over the south zone. After six months their efforts bore fruit. Nazia had faint memories of her daughters as she last saw them around 30 years ago. All she could remember was her younger daughter had six fingers. The meeting was fixed at the deputy commissioner’s office at Purani Haveli.
At around 5 pm on Tuesday, Ayesha, her husband, their 10-year-old son and Fatima drove into the office. After moving around the hall, their eyes fell on an elderly woman. “We never thought we would meet our mother in lifetime. Allah had fixed the meeting and we are glad that we got to see our mother after 28 long years,” Ayesha and Fatima said.