Bald pate lands man in jail

It was meant to be a night to remember, but Nazia Ahmed (name changed) would like to forget it soon. On the night she got married to Abdul Akhtar Hussain Sayyed, 27, Nazia found out that he was bald, something hidden from her till that point.

Nazia, a 25-year-old arts graduate from Mumbai University, married Abdul on Thursday, December 3, with the consent of elders. Nazia’s mother, a widow, is teaching Arabic to locals in Agripada.

After the wedding, the newlyweds went to a south Mumbai hotel. On reaching the hotel, Abdul surprised Nazia by removing his wig and exposing his bald pate. A shocked Nazia stormed out of the hotel and rushed home.

She then narrated the incident to her mother and relatives who decided to lodge a complaint of cheating against Abdul and his father, Akhtar Hussain Abdul Sayyed, 53.
Later, the relatives found out that the gold ornaments given by Akhtar during the wedding, which they thought the value of was Rs5 lakh, were artificial, said Nazia’s relative Arif.

“Abdul and his father were booked under sections 419 (punishment for cheating by personation), 420 (cheating) and 34 (common intention) IPC.” said senior police inspector Praveen Gosavi of Agripada police station and added that the duo had been released on bail of Rs5,000 each by the Mazgaon metropolitan magistrate’s court on Saturday.

Abdul and his father are residents of Jogeshwari but have been working in Dubai for the past several years, said Gosavi.