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Afghan woman, allegedly tricked into wedlock, seeks permission to prosecute Indian Army 'husband'

Seeking justice: Sabra Khan shows her husband's photographs at a press conference on Monday  PIC/IMTIYAZ KHAN

A young Afghan woman has arrived in India looking for her lost love. Sabra Khan has been here for the past one month seeking permission from the Indian government to persecute her husband, who she alleges, abandoned her in Afghanistan.

If Sabra is to be believed, her husband is a doctor with the Indian Army, who converted to Islam to marry her but did not reveal that he had been married earlier to an Indian woman. 
 
Sabra even met Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday.

Her lawyer Raveendra Singh Garhia said, "We have been assured by the Home Ministry that a proper investigation will be carried out and appropriate action will be taken against the person if found guilty."

According to Sabra, she was working with the Indira Gandhi Hospital run by the Indian mission in Kabul, when she married Major Dr Chandrashekhar Pant, for whom she had worked as a translator in 2006. She  claimed that 15 days after staying with her, the doctor left for India on a posting.

Sabra's world turned upside down when after a few months, he called her up  to say that he couldn't get her to India as he was already married and had two kids.

Sabra said that last month she arrived in India and went to meet the major at the Army hospital at Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, but did not get a favourable response from him. 

She has also registered a complaint with the National Commission for Women, which is yet to respond to
her plea.  The police have expressed inability to take any action in the matter without the permission of the Central government as the offence was committed outside India's territory.

She says

Major Chandrashekhar Pant, currently posted as a doctor at Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, married her in Afghanistan. She claims Pant didn't reveal he was a married man