India seals Bangladeshi girl’s love story, rejects dad’s plea

The Indian government has stamped its approval on an Indo-Bangla love story.
India’s Zubair Khan and Bangladesh’s Shazia Zarin met on Facebook three years back and fell in love.

The couple eloped in 2008 when Zubair flew to Bangladesh from the United Arab Emirates where he was working as a property consultant.

They flew to India and got married in 2009.
The couple got protection from the court.

However, Zarin’s millionaire father Captain Abdus Sabur Khan sought the help of the Bangladesh high commission, which wrote to the Indian home ministry for tracing the girl.

Captain Khan alleged Zarin had been kidnapped by her husband and claimed she had been married earlier.

He challenged the Indian government’s refusal to deport his daughter to Bangladesh.

However, the Delhi high court said the father exhibited “obstinacy and stubbornness for a bad cause’’.

Rejecting his plea, the court said it should not encourage the father’s feeling that it was a defeat of his family.

Zarin is now blessed with a daughter and has more than one reason to rejoice.

The court highlighted the problem of “unwanted and unwarranted” intervention by parents in the lives of their children inspite of them turning adults. In the name of honour of an individual, a family or a community, even murders take place, the court added.

The father in this case has an “agenda of vendetta and not of real concern’’, the bench observed, adding “he is a misguided father and requires more of a therapeutic treatment rather to face the burden of costs”.