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Kashmiri woman’s viral video from Bihar: ‘Couple has been reunited’, Police issues statement

By News Desk

January 31, 2023

A Kashmiri woman whose video had gone viral on social media, claiming that she was married to one Bihar resident and later deserted by him, has been reunited with her husband, the Police claimed.

Sumaira Haneef (now Anjali Singh) married Lalu Singh, a local resident of Begusarai in May 2022, as per local reports.

In a viral video, a Kashmiri woman claimed that Lalu Singh, a Bihar resident was working as a labour in Kashmir and used to buy ration and other items from her brother’s shop in Kashmir.

The two secretly married in a Bihar court after which she changed her religion to Hinduism. “We lived together for several months and then he (Lalu) sent me home to Kashmir on November 02 and promised that he would come and take me back after ‘Saraswati Pooja’, but when I came to Kashmir, he stopped receiving my calls and then secretly called my parents telling them that I was mentally unstable,” she claimed in the video.

“I have left my home and my parents for him. All I want is to reunite with my husband as I cannot go anywhere now,” she is heard claiming in the video.

As per local reports, Anjali returned to Begusarai after her husband did not take her calls, however, when she reached Begusarai, she was not allowed to live with her in-laws, and in fact, they threw her out.

As per a report on channel V2, the girl also tried to commit suicide and was admitted at the Saddar Hospital in Birpur area of Begusarai in Bihar, however,the timely intervention of the doctors saved her life.

The Bihar Police have said that the couple had a fight after which they split and the woman was living somewhere in Bihar’s Begusarai district, however, the two were called to the Police station where the matter was resolved and the two were reunited.

“During the course of investigation it has come to the fore that the woman has willingly married the man and every claim on social media was investiated, but most of the claims turned out to be fake,” the Police official said.

The Police officer said that the woman had willingly left her husband’s house and living with her consent with at her friend’s. “She was not being threatened, she has refuted all the claims and she also agreed that she had not been abducted as claimed in the viral video on social media,” Police said.