Incestuous marriage declared null and void

In yesterday's post Father marries daughter, a man married his teenage daughter in Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal state of India. But as per Times of India, leading Islamic seminary "Darul Uloom Deoband" has declared the marriage of the man with his teenaged daughter in West Bengal as null and void and ruled that the girl's impregnation by her father will be treated as rape and the culprits will be punishable under the Shariat laws.

As per BBC, Earlier his angry neighbours in Kasiajhiora village nearly lynched him for what they said was a clear case of incest. "We didn't know she was married so when we confronted his wife, she told us about the bizarre marriage six months ago," Sheikh Ramzan, a village leader at Kasiajhiora, said.

"We wanted to smash his head, we were so angry."

Yet more Strange is the explanation given by the mother of the girl justifying the act of his husband.

"He is a deeply religious man and will never lie in the name of Allah," Sakina told a court in the northern district of Jalpaiguri.

"I agreed to his marriage with our eldest daughter when he invoked divine sanction," she said.

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