Sarabjeet Kaur's husband moves Pak court to annul her marriage, alleges conversion
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Sarabjeet Kaur's husband has approached the Lahore High Court seeking annulment of her marriage to a Pakistani man, claiming she converted and remarried without legally divorcing him in India.
In a fresh development in the cross-border case of Indian national Sarabjeet Kaur, her husband Karnal Singh has approached the Lahore High Court seeking annulment of her alleged marriage to Pakistani citizen Nasir Hussain, claiming that the marriage was contracted without legally dissolving her first marriage in India.
The case dates back to November 4 last year, when Sarabjeet Kaur travelled to Pakistan with a group of over 2,000 Sikh pilgrims on the occasion of Guru Nanak Dev Parkash Purv. While the group returned to India on November 13, she did not report for exit clearance and was later reported missing from the jatha. During her stay in Pakistan, she converted to Islam, adopted the name Noor Fatima, and married Nasir Hussain, citing an eight-year-old social media relationship, triggering legal and diplomatic scrutiny in both countries.
The latest petition filed by the Karnal Sing through Advocate Ali Changezi Sandhu, says that Sarabjeet Kaur continues to be legally married to Karnal Singh under Indian law, as no divorce has been obtained to date.
The petition includes allegations of forced conversion and claims that financial inducements were involved. It says that documentary evidence has been annexed, including material in which Nasir Hussain allegedly admits to sharing nude photographs and videos of Sarabjeet Kaur with her relatives.
According to the petitioner’s counsel, Pakistan’s constitutional courts, particularly the Federal Shariat Court, have laid down clear principles governing the marriage of a married non-Muslim woman who converts to Islam and seeks to marry a Muslim man. These principles require the woman to first obtain a judicial divorce in accordance with her domestic laws.
She must then formally invite her non-Muslim husband to embrace Islam in the presence of two witnesses. If the husband refuses, a 90-day waiting period must be observed before the marriage can be considered dissolved. Only after the completion of this process can she legally marry a Muslim man.
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