Elderly man from Oman, Ahmed, 65.

HYDERABAD: In a shocking incident, a 16-year-old girl has been married to an elderly man from Oman, Ahmed, 65. The minor's mother, Syeeda Unnisa , a resident of Nawab Saheb Kunta , on Wednesday lodged a complaint with police pleading the girl be brought back to India from Muscat.

Unnisa charged her husband's sister Ghousia and her husband Sikander for getting the girl married to the sheik, who had come to Hyderabad before Ramzan . Unnisa said she had refused to allow her daughter to be married to the sheik, but Sikander had got a qazi to perform the wedding at a hotel at Barkas.

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“The sheik is saying he had bought my daughter for Rs 5 lakh. He said this was paid to Sikander. Only if this amount is paid, he said he would send my daughter back to India,“ Unnisa said in the complaint lodged with the Falakunuma police on Wednesday. Sikander allegedly showed the minor girl videos about a lavish lifestyle she might lead in Oman if she married the sheik.

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After the marriage, the Omani national had stayed at a hotel for four days with his minor bride. After that, she was left at the house of Sikander at Teegalkunta.The Omani national then left India. Sikander himself arranged passports and other documents for the girl to fly to Oman. Syeed Unnisa said she had been paying repeated visits to the house of Sikander to get her daughter back.

“I am being threatened when I ask him to get my daughter back,“ Syeeda Unnisa said. She met ACP, Falaknuma, Mohd Tajuddin Ahmed and urged that the culprits be booked and the girl brought back to India.

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In Video: 16-year-old Hyderabad girl married off to 65-year-old Oman sheikh