Dubai-based bizman allegedly abducts own kids from BKC
Omkar Khandekar
After death of his wife, the man’s inlaws were granted custody of the two kids who are epileptic, but he managed to flee with them while on a weekly visit last Sunday.
The Bandra Kurla Complex police are hunting for a businessman who kidnapped his own kids earlier this week.
After Mullah’s wife died on October 30, 2013, his inlaws won custody of his two children, Abdullah, 6, and Mohammad Hamza, 3, both of whom are epileptic since birth.
As per a court order, the children were to stay with their grandmother and maternal uncle at Santa Cruz (W), while Mullah was allowed visitation rights every Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm. The venue of the meeting was agreed upon as Hotel Trident in Bandra Kurla Complex.
Last Sunday, as usual, the kids were escorted by their grandmother and aunt to the hotel, and met their father in the ground floor coffee shop around 11 am.
“Around 12.05 pm, on the pretext of taking the kids to the washroom, Mullah took them to another part of the hotel,” said an officer from the BKC police station. “A little later he returned, got into a car waiting for him at the gates, and fled with the kids.”
The family allege that this wasn’t the first time that Mullah had tried to abduct the kids. “On October 5, he tried to similarly flee with them. At that time, waiters of the hotel alerted their aunt and we managed to stop him,” said Imran Sheikh, the children’s maternal uncle at whose house they live.
The police have obtained CCTV footage from the hotel and are in the process of issuing lookout notices at the airports. “We have registered a case of kidnapping against the accused. Investigations are on,” the officer said.
After death of his wife, the man’s inlaws were granted custody of the two kids who are epileptic, but he managed to flee with them while on a weekly visit last Sunday.
The Bandra Kurla Complex police are hunting for a businessman who kidnapped his own kids earlier this week.
Shoaib Mullah, 44, originally hails from Mumbra, but for several years has been running aDubai-based import-export business dealing in consumer goods. He also assists his brother in amobile accessories shop in UAE. Mullah allegedly abducted his kids while on a weekly visit to Hotel Trident at BKC on November 2.
After Mullah’s wife died on October 30, 2013, his inlaws won custody of his two children, Abdullah, 6, and Mohammad Hamza, 3, both of whom are epileptic since birth.
As per a court order, the children were to stay with their grandmother and maternal uncle at Santa Cruz (W), while Mullah was allowed visitation rights every Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm. The venue of the meeting was agreed upon as Hotel Trident in Bandra Kurla Complex.
Last Sunday, as usual, the kids were escorted by their grandmother and aunt to the hotel, and met their father in the ground floor coffee shop around 11 am.
“Around 12.05 pm, on the pretext of taking the kids to the washroom, Mullah took them to another part of the hotel,” said an officer from the BKC police station. “A little later he returned, got into a car waiting for him at the gates, and fled with the kids.”
The family allege that this wasn’t the first time that Mullah had tried to abduct the kids. “On October 5, he tried to similarly flee with them. At that time, waiters of the hotel alerted their aunt and we managed to stop him,” said Imran Sheikh, the children’s maternal uncle at whose house they live.
The police have obtained CCTV footage from the hotel and are in the process of issuing lookout notices at the airports. “We have registered a case of kidnapping against the accused. Investigations are on,” the officer said.
