LAHORE – A group of girls have adopted a novel way to loot people; they marry men, fly abroad seeking refuge supposedly from their family and then deceitfully divorce, appropriating the groom’s money.
MODUS OPERANDI: Senior police official tells about the group’s working: the girls work separately and each member as an individual hunts her prey. The girls are educated and hail from suburban areas of Lahore. The first girl traps the man posing to be in love and then marry him. Soon, her fake parents and other relatives pretend to oppose the marriage and decide to kill the couple.
The girl pressurizes her spouse to arrange for a UK visa where her relatives will take care of her, as her life was under threat. The victim spends the money from the start of marriage by buying gold jewelry and bears the wedding expenditure, visa fees and ticket.
So much so he also pays the admission fee of foreign educational institutions, as student visa is the easiest way to go abroad, charges for food and hostel accommodation.
A CASE: In a recent incident, data revealed that Shugufta Ambreen of Moza Tattral of Chakwal married Zulfiqar Ali of Baghbanpura. The husband was ignorant about the fact that it was a trap to rip him off. All of a sudden, the bride’s father, Muhammad Iqbal, turned foe. Ambreen succeeded in convincing her spouse that her mother Fahmida, her brother Muhammad Shahrukh and her sister Rabia, who since long had been the victims of her father’s tyranny, had to flee somewhere else to save their lives. The family went to Karachi and spent some months there.
The planned drama reached its climax when a close relative approached the family and forced Zulfiqar to give ‘fake’ divorce on a paper as a ploy to boil down the situation, as the elderly of the bride’s family including her father could kill of them anytime.
Zulfiqar Ali had to compromise and the girl’s family went back to Tattral. Afterwards, the girl told another interesting story to her spouse that the fake divorce could actually work well. She said her relatives lived in England and if a student visa was arranged, she would remain alive. She convinced her spouse that after reaching, she will bring him to England and they will lead a happy life.
Zulfiqar Ali got her admitted in London School of Business and Finance in ACCA and paid more than Rs 1 million as admission fee and other charges. Soon, she went to the UK and after some time she denied her marriage with Zulfiqar and used the fake divorce paper as the proof. Zulfiqar approached the Jamiya Neemiya and got a religious decree that it could not be called a divorce and marriage was intact.
He also got the same decree from a mosque in UK as well. He has sent the decrees to girl but all in vain. Zulfiqar complained that his wife was hell-bent to make another marriage despite the fact she was already married.
