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dangermousieWow. This is like a drama or a Bolylwood flick! Also, talk about scary abusive families…
Indian Man Chains Son for Marrying
AP - 05/11/07
CALCUTTA, India -
A father chained and locked up his 19-year-old son for three weeks for marrying against the family's wishes in eastern India, a police officer said Friday.
Police rescued Raghu Amin Mollah from his father's house Thursday on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal state, said Joy Biswas, a police officer who took part in the operation.
"Yes, he was kept in a room locked and chained," Biswas told The Associated Press.
The father, Abed Ali Mollah, has been arrested and charged with illegally detaining and torturing his son for 21 days, he said.
Biswas said Abed Ali Mollah opposed his son's marriage to Shahnaz Khatun, 18, because of enmity between the two families.
Police acted after Khatun filed a complaint against her father-in-law, Biswas said.
The Hindustan Times said the two teenagers had grown up in the same neighborhood and fallen in love. They eloped and wed in a mosque on the outskirts of Calcutta, Biswas said.
In rural India, most marriages are arranged by the parents, and it is unusual for young people to choose their own partners.
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KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Police in eastern India have rescued a Muslim man who had been shackled in chains for a month for marrying his childhood lover against the wishes of his father and village clerics, authorities said Friday.
Raghu Amin, 21, was locked in a dingy room by his father in a village in the state of West Bengal after he publicly announced his marriage to 18-year-old Sehnaaz Khatoon, who came from a poorer and lower class family, police said.
"He was chained throughout and even served food in this condition as punishment," said police officer Jay Biswas.
Police came to Raghu's rescue Thursday evening in Baduria village, 70 km (40 miles) north of the state capital Kolkata, after his wife lodged a complaint.
Raghu's father has been arrested on charges of wrongful confinement and police said they were looking for some village clerics who they suspected were also involved.
In India, most marriages are still arranged by parents of the bride and groom who often look for compatibility in religion, caste and class. Couples breaking from this tradition are sometimes ostracized by their families and even face violence.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSDEL21576820070511
In more amusing news, I found this article:
German men steal railway line
May 16, 2007
A court in Germany has convicted three men of stealing over four km of rail track, weighing nearly 500 tonnes, to sell as scrap metal.
The court in the city of Marburg said on Tuesday the men, aged 26 to 29, pretended to be working for the national rail operator Deutsche Bahn when they began carving up a disused line between nearby Niederwalgern and Lohra with blowtorches.
"They even went around handing out leaflets to locals asking for understanding about the noise," a court spokesman said.
"The stolen tracks were worth about 170,000 euros (NZ$313,000) altogether, but they'd collected less than 100,000 euros (NZ$184,000) by the time they were caught."
The crime has become so famous that the regional education ministry has used it as a model for a maths exam, asking pupils to calculate the weight, volume and value of the stolen steel.
The three suspects, all Germans born in the former Soviet Union, had removed 476 tonnes of steel track by the time they were caught when a local man contacted Deutsche Bahn to check their story.
Two suspects confessed and received 18-month suspended sentences. The third was given two years and one month in jail.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/1125014
Indian Man Chains Son for Marrying
AP - 05/11/07
CALCUTTA, India -
A father chained and locked up his 19-year-old son for three weeks for marrying against the family's wishes in eastern India, a police officer said Friday.
Police rescued Raghu Amin Mollah from his father's house Thursday on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal state, said Joy Biswas, a police officer who took part in the operation.
"Yes, he was kept in a room locked and chained," Biswas told The Associated Press.
The father, Abed Ali Mollah, has been arrested and charged with illegally detaining and torturing his son for 21 days, he said.
Biswas said Abed Ali Mollah opposed his son's marriage to Shahnaz Khatun, 18, because of enmity between the two families.
Police acted after Khatun filed a complaint against her father-in-law, Biswas said.
The Hindustan Times said the two teenagers had grown up in the same neighborhood and fallen in love. They eloped and wed in a mosque on the outskirts of Calcutta, Biswas said.
In rural India, most marriages are arranged by the parents, and it is unusual for young people to choose their own partners.
Souce for this.
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Police in eastern India have rescued a Muslim man who had been shackled in chains for a month for marrying his childhood lover against the wishes of his father and village clerics, authorities said Friday.
Raghu Amin, 21, was locked in a dingy room by his father in a village in the state of West Bengal after he publicly announced his marriage to 18-year-old Sehnaaz Khatoon, who came from a poorer and lower class family, police said.
"He was chained throughout and even served food in this condition as punishment," said police officer Jay Biswas.
Police came to Raghu's rescue Thursday evening in Baduria village, 70 km (40 miles) north of the state capital Kolkata, after his wife lodged a complaint.
Raghu's father has been arrested on charges of wrongful confinement and police said they were looking for some village clerics who they suspected were also involved.
In India, most marriages are still arranged by parents of the bride and groom who often look for compatibility in religion, caste and class. Couples breaking from this tradition are sometimes ostracized by their families and even face violence.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSDEL21576820070511
In more amusing news, I found this article:
German men steal railway line
May 16, 2007
A court in Germany has convicted three men of stealing over four km of rail track, weighing nearly 500 tonnes, to sell as scrap metal.
The court in the city of Marburg said on Tuesday the men, aged 26 to 29, pretended to be working for the national rail operator Deutsche Bahn when they began carving up a disused line between nearby Niederwalgern and Lohra with blowtorches.
"They even went around handing out leaflets to locals asking for understanding about the noise," a court spokesman said.
"The stolen tracks were worth about 170,000 euros (NZ$313,000) altogether, but they'd collected less than 100,000 euros (NZ$184,000) by the time they were caught."
The crime has become so famous that the regional education ministry has used it as a model for a maths exam, asking pupils to calculate the weight, volume and value of the stolen steel.
The three suspects, all Germans born in the former Soviet Union, had removed 476 tonnes of steel track by the time they were caught when a local man contacted Deutsche Bahn to check their story.
Two suspects confessed and received 18-month suspended sentences. The third was given two years and one month in jail.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/1125014
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Date: 2007-05-17 11:06 am (UTC)I find it both encouraging and sad when the future runs head long into the past. One place where this is happening is India. Encouraging when things like weatern media, higher living standards and better education show young people they have more choices, the possibility of greater independance and demonstartes that the way there parents lived in not the way they are going or have to live. Sad because when people efforts to hold onto the past destroy everything they hold dear, in this case this family.
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