BAREILLY: They say love knows no boundary. For Tasleem Ahmed, 45, and his latest bride, Tabassum, 30, life has come full circle. They both got married at an early age. While the man lost his wife to an ailment, the woman ended up divorcing her spouse. Tasleem got married again, this time with a 45-year-old divorced woman in UP’s Moradabad. A resident of Jaspur area of

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, Tasleem started living in his wife’s house. And this is where Tasleem found his “love of life”, Tabassum, his step daughter who had shifted to her mother’s house after a bitter separation with her husband.

After over two years of affair, Tasleem and Tabassum decided to come together a few days ago. But, their

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infuriated Tabassum’s mother who has approached police in Moradabad now.

Station house officer (SHO) of Jaspur, inspector Abul Kalam told TOI: “The woman has filed a complaint with Moradabad Police. The matter was also brought before a family counseling cell in Moradabad. Since her husband and her daughter started living in Jaspur, Moradabad Police have sought our help in searching and sending the couple back to Moradabad. They will be counseled there.”

The SHO said that on Wednesday, they summoned Tasleem and Tabassum to the police station and asked them to go to Moradabad.

Meanwhile, their marriage has also infuriated clerics in the community.

The Imam of Chand mosque in Jaspur, Shaqir Husain, has criticized the marriage. “It is against Islam to marry step daughter. Anyone who has done it should be boycotted by the community,” he said.