Kashmiri widow seeks justice from Nehru-Gandhi scion for 'murdered' husband
Kashmiri widow seeks justice from Nehru-Gandhi scion for 'murdered' husband
Anchal's family has betrayed her but she has full faith in India's first political family the Gandhis.
The Kashmiri girl, who converted to marry a small trader from Jammu, is banking on the linkage of the Nehru-Gandhi family to her home state for support to fight those who "killed" her husband.
Anchal, Amina Yousuf before she converted to Hinduism, married Rajnish Sharma, 29, before Jammu court on August 21 and the same day the couple had solemnized the marriage in an Arya Samaj Mandir in Jammu.
However, Rajnish died in Srinagar police custody on October 5 evening after he was picked up from the Rehari residence of his elder brother on September 29 on he charges of kidnapping Amina.
Anchal is now demanding a CBI probe into the "murder" of her husband and hopes that the Gandhi family will help her to get justice.
"The ancestors of Rahul belonged to Kashmir. I have heard a lot about Rahul. He can understand the pain of a young Kashmiri girl. Now, I want to meet him. I believe he will help me in getting justice," the 27-year-old widow told MiD DAY at the Congress office, waiting to get an appointment to meet the party general secretary.
Anchal, a resident of Nehru Park area, near the Dal Lake, in Srinagar, is also fighting a legal battle in the Supreme Court to punish her husband's killers.
"I converted to Hinduism and married Rajnish. The police picked up my husband at the behest of my parents, who were against our marriage. My husband was found dead at the Munshi Bagh police station," said Anchal.
"I have paid a heavy price for an inter-religion marriage. I want justice. Those who killed my husband must be punished," she said.
Anchal said she would never return to her parents' house and resolved to be "faithful" to her husband even in his death. Anchal's father Mohammad Yusuf Mazari is a vigilance inspector in the sales tax department in Kashmir.
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In view of threat to the lives of Sharma family, an apex court bench headed by Justice Altmas Kabir ordered the Delhi Police to provide protection to Anchal, her mother-in-law Raj Kumari and brother-in-law Pawan Kumar Sharma.
The next hearing in the case is scheduled for November 27.
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