Bangalore Mirror : She made marriage her trade to get rich

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A court has castigated a 30-year-old woman who turned marriage into an
institution for profit. Kausar Begum alias Umme Kausar, a resident of HBR
Layout, had allegedly married 11 different persons under different names
only to divorce them and fleece them by filing false charges of dowry
harassment against them.

A magistrate’s court, in an order, observed that “the entire cross
examination of her clearly shows that the complainant is in the habit of
marrying rich persons and filing this kind of complaint to extract money”.

The court pronounced this order in a dowry harassment case Kausar had filed
against her third husband, Syed Hasham Ahmed. Hasham had submitted
documents and photographs of Kausar marrying several people, including that
of her recent marriage with another Bangalore-based person with whom she is
now staying.

The court absolved Ahmed of the charges, but came down heavily on Kausar,
the complainant.

Kausar and Hasham were married in June 2006. Ahmed claims that within a
month after they were married, Kausar began harassing him. She then
disappeared with all the valuables from their house, as reported by
Bangalore Mirror on April 4, 2009. *She's a 11
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The law finally caught up with Kausar when the Sion police arrested her in
2009 after she had similarly cheated a Mumbai businessman. She spent about
40 days in a Mumbai jail before she was released on bail, but prior to that
she had given ‘Khula’ (divorce from the wife) to Hasham. He claims that he
had to fork out Rs 20 lakh for a final settlement, but Kausar still filed a
case against Ahmed in the 11th ACMM court when she returned to Bangalore.

In its order, the court took serious exception to Kausar’s and her father’s
claim that they had given a dowry and gold ornaments to Hasham. “Kausar
Begum agreed that day-to-day earnings of her father Iqbal Pasha were not
enough to maintain the family. It raises doubt upon the expenses borne by
her father for the marriage. Doubt arises over dowry as complainant and the
accused stayed together only for 15 days after the marriage. She accuses
her husband of harassment and at the same time she admits that she had
given ‘Khula’ to the accused and also to others whom she married. They
didn’t even have any documents to prove their allegations,” the court said.

Finally court said, “There are lots of contradictions in the evidence of
both the witnesses. The complainant and her parents were arrested by Mumbai
police and they were in judicial custody for many days. All these
circumstances go to show that in order to take revenge against accused
(Syed Hasham) or to extract money from him the complainant has lodged this
complaint by making false allegations.