The Embassy of Muscat has decided to get involved in the case of the minor 16 year old girl married off to an Omani Sheikh named, Ahmed.
A news channel reported the Embassy sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sultanate of Oman. The letter also had the school record of the Hyderabadi girl that shows her date of birth as 18th August 2002.
The letter said, “This means, she was under 16 years at the time of her marriage in June 2017. Prima facie, it appears that Ahmed has violated both Indian and Omani laws, which require 18 years as the minimum age of marriage.”
The girl was sold by her father’s sister and her husband, to the Omani sheikh for Rs. 5 lakh with the help of a broker.
DCP South, V. Satyanarayana reported, “The police contacted Ahmed through the Indian Embassy in Oman and asked him to send the teenager back. The man said that he will send the girl soon. But now he is demanding the Rs. 5 lakh he had paid to the brokers and the family here at the time of marriage. Embassy officials are also making efforts to convince him and is seeking help from the Oman Government too.”
