Bhat Yasir
The woman who was allegedly married to more than 28 Kashmiri men has come out and denied all the allegations made against her.
Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, Shaheena Akhtar, a resident of Rajouri said that initially she was married in Rajouri and the couple bore two children. Her husband allegedly left her and he remarried after divorcing her, Shaheena claimed.
“I was working as a tailor in Rajouri town and met my children after a week. It was during this time that i met a named Mohammed Altaf Mir, a resident of Doodpathri in Budgam who said that he would take me to Kashmir where one of my sister lives. He asked me to sit in his car as he also lived in my sister’s village,” Shaheena said.
Shaheena said that she was waiting for a vehicle at Rajouri town when Altaf stopped his car besides her and told her that he would drop her at her (Shaheena) sister’s village.
He forcibly took me to his house and asked me to marry him and also promised to construct my house in Rajouri, she said. “If anyone shows me that I have married even twice the court is free to hang me,” she told The Kashmiriyat.
Calling all the protestors in Srinagar’s press colony fake, Shaheena claimed that she does not know anyone among those people. “I have married twice stating that her husband had divorced her, and she used to torture her constantly and all this may be his (Altaf’s) conspiracy,” Shaheena said.
“People should ascertain the facts before defaming someone. The case of Altaf’s divorce was going on in the court for several months. It was just one year back that I got divorced. Had I been the culprit, Why would I go to Kashmir,” she claimed while speaking to The Kashmiriyat.
She said that there are only 7,000 rupees in her account. “Yes, a few months ago, her bank balance was 1,00,000 rupees which was the security money Altaf gave her,” claimed Shaheena. She also asked the people who claimed to have sent her the money to prove their claims. “If anyone of them can show a single rupee has been given to me, I will surrender to the court and the court can punish me,” Shaheena said.
Denying the allegations that she ran away from Kashmir, she said, “Altaf, my second husband from Kashmir assaulted me and subjected me to all forms of domestic violence. It was only him (Altaf) who took me to Rajouri and dropped me there. I was in Kashmir only for a month. For the next six months, he did not even seek my whereabout. Only after that did he send me a divorce paper. Now it has been over a year, and he has started another drama.”
They have caused serious damage to my societal reputation. “I am not able to go out of my house. It has gotten tough for me to even get out,” Shaheena said, while asking the authorities to intervene and punish those who are the real culprits.