Hyderabad woman seeks Sushma Swaraj's help to trace out daughter forcibly separated in Kuwait 40 years ago
Ch Sushil Rao | TNN | Feb 25, 2019, 19:50 IST
Sayeda Fatima Begum holds the photo for her separated daughter Saleha.HYDERABAD: Sayeda Fatima Begum, a woman from Chandrayangutta in the city is trying to trace out her daughter whom she has not seen for the last 40 years in Kuwait.
She has also approached The Indian embassy in Kuwait for help in the case.
On Monday, the embassy was sent additional information and documents that could be of help to locate her daughter, Dilal Mohammed alias Saleha, so that she could be united with her mother in India.
Sayeda Fatima Begum, a resident of Hashimabad, Chandrayangutta had married a Kuwait national Mohammed Hijab Alajmi of Fahaheel district in Kuwait sometime in 1978.
According to her, her husband took her to Kuwait after the marriage. She became pregnant and as she was ill, he sent her to India promising that he could come back and take her back to Kuwait. Fatima Begum gave birth to a baby girl in 1979.
As her husband did not respond to letters to take them back to Kuwait, she wrote to the Indian embassy in Kuwait, which traced out the husband’s family. It turned out that the husband Hijab Alajmi had died in a road accident in Damam in Saudi Arabia. But Alajmi’s first wife’s son came to India and took both Fatima Begum and Saleha back to Kuwai in 1980.
However, on reaching Kuwait, she said was subjected to torture after her husband’s first wife’s family claimed all the monetary benefits of the man’s accidental death.
“I even attempted suicide because the torture was unbearable. Alajmi’s son brought me back to India, but at the Mumbai airport, he vanished, leaving me in the lurch. Some people took pity on me and got me back to Hyderabad,” she said, recounting the incident in 1981.
Fatima Begum traveled to Kuwait in 1987 and made attempts to trace out her daughter. However, because of the Kuwait-Iraq war in 1991, she returned to India.
In a video that Syed Fatima Begum shared, she urged union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to help trace out her daughter. “I want to see her before I die,” she said in a letter to the minister.
In a response to her plea, the Indian Embassy in Kuwait acknowledged receipt of the details of Fatima Begum’s daughter in Kuwait. Social workers and MBT leader Amjed Ullah Khan sent an email of all related documents to the embassy.
She has also approached The Indian embassy in Kuwait for help in the case.
On Monday, the embassy was sent additional information and documents that could be of help to locate her daughter, Dilal Mohammed alias Saleha, so that she could be united with her mother in India.
Sayeda Fatima Begum, a resident of Hashimabad, Chandrayangutta had married a Kuwait national Mohammed Hijab Alajmi of Fahaheel district in Kuwait sometime in 1978.
According to her, her husband took her to Kuwait after the marriage. She became pregnant and as she was ill, he sent her to India promising that he could come back and take her back to Kuwait. Fatima Begum gave birth to a baby girl in 1979.
As her husband did not respond to letters to take them back to Kuwait, she wrote to the Indian embassy in Kuwait, which traced out the husband’s family. It turned out that the husband Hijab Alajmi had died in a road accident in Damam in Saudi Arabia. But Alajmi’s first wife’s son came to India and took both Fatima Begum and Saleha back to Kuwai in 1980.
However, on reaching Kuwait, she said was subjected to torture after her husband’s first wife’s family claimed all the monetary benefits of the man’s accidental death.
“I even attempted suicide because the torture was unbearable. Alajmi’s son brought me back to India, but at the Mumbai airport, he vanished, leaving me in the lurch. Some people took pity on me and got me back to Hyderabad,” she said, recounting the incident in 1981.
Fatima Begum traveled to Kuwait in 1987 and made attempts to trace out her daughter. However, because of the Kuwait-Iraq war in 1991, she returned to India.
In a video that Syed Fatima Begum shared, she urged union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to help trace out her daughter. “I want to see her before I die,” she said in a letter to the minister.
In a response to her plea, the Indian Embassy in Kuwait acknowledged receipt of the details of Fatima Begum’s daughter in Kuwait. Social workers and MBT leader Amjed Ullah Khan sent an email of all related documents to the embassy.
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