Sunday, May 23, 2004

Gya: Old thing, young thing, same thing cuz police don't care

Reeaz Khan, the city businessman who grabbed a 13-year-old girl from her aunt's home early Friday morning in contravention of a High Court order obtained against him the previous day, handed her over to her mother several hours later that night.

Justice B S Roy on Thursday ordered that Khan release the teenager into the joint custody of her mother, Bibi Shameeza Hamid, and her maternal aunt (Hamid's sister), and further, that Khan refrain from contacting the teen.

The judge's order came after Hamid filed habeas corpus proceedings seeking to have Khan produce the teenager's body before the court after other attempts, through the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security and the police, to have Khan release the teenager to her mother had proved futile.

Hamid told Stabroek News yesterday that several hours after one of Khan's attorneys told her to pick up her daughter at Prasad's Hospital, Khan was still refusing to let the girl go.

"When I turn up at Prasad hospital, Khan was there with my daughter and he refuse to let her come with me. But I did not move from the hospital; I stay there and wait and then he carry she to Woodlands hospital to see if he could get them to admit she, so that he could keep she," Hamid said, adding that each time he moved to a different location with her daughter, she was forced to pay a taxi to follow him.
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Initial efforts by Hamid to get assistance from the police were not successful, hence her legal action against Khan.
Maybe it's a "religious" thing.

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