Muzaffarnagar, June 02: In a throw back after six years to the Gudiya case, a community panchayat has asked a Muslim woman, who had remarried, to go back to her first husband, who returned after remaining missing for five years.
Roshan got married with Irshad eleven years ago and had two children. Irshad then went missing for five years. In the meantime, Roshan got married to another man Gaffar.
Gudiya was from Meerut and she died of septicemia soon after she returned to her first husband. Roshan married one Gaffar in 2007 after Irshad left, and had a child from him as well. Irshad, who wanted his wife back after he resurfaced, took the issue to the community panchayat which “annulled” her second marriage and asked her to return to him.
He said Roshan’s first marriage would have been legal for nine years after her husband’s disappearance. “Besides, Roshan should have got her nikah cancelled, if at all she wanted to remarry. So, going by that, her second marriage is null and void,” the maulana said.
However, the community panchayat of Miranpur town yesterday pronounced her second marriage as “illegal” and directed Roshan to return to her first husband.
The case is similar to that of 26-year-old Gudiya of Mundali village near Meerut, who had remarried after her husband Arif went missing in Kargil war. Gudiya married Taufiq thereafter.
On returning to his native village, Arif found his wife Gudiya married to Taufiq. Later, Arif and Gudiya were reunited following a decision by the village council.
-PTI