The brothers brought back their wives to their home but by then the father of the brides had filed an FIR accusing the two brothers of kidnapping his daughters.
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Two brothers from Bihar were arrested on charges of kidnapping two Kashmiri sisters, whom they claim to have married just days back.
Police from Jammu and Kashmir with the aid of their Bihar counterparts arrested both men for kidnapping the women from Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, Bihar Police said. Brothers Parvez and Tavrej Alam hail from Ramvishnupur village of Supaul. They were working as carpenters in Ramban when they fell in love with the sisters, the police said on Thursday.
The brothers brought back their wives to their home here, but by then the father of the brides had filed an FIR accusing the two brothers of kidnapping his daughters. Supaul Deputy Superintendent of Police Vidyasagar said, “A team of Jammu and Kashmir police reached here and arrested them. The accused are saying that the women willingly married them.”
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The state of Jammu and Kashmir is under a strict lock down since the central government abrogated Article 370 which gave special status to the state. After the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status many men from India have been posting their desire to marry Kashmiri women on social media. The posts revealed misogynistic mindset of the men who considered women of Kashmir as their property and did not consider the women’s consent.
Recently, chief minister of Haryana and BJP leader, Manohar Lal Khattar also made a controversial remark when he said, “Now some people say, Kashmir is open, they (brides) will be brought from there. But jokes apart, if (sex) ratio is improved, then there will be a right balance in society,”
Khattar was expressing his concern over low sex ratio in Haryana at an event in Fatehabad when he made the remarks in an apparent reference to the scrapping of the special status for Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution.
His remarks drew flak from various quarters, with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi terming them “despicable.”
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