MP police on their heels, lady of Kumbh Mela fame, husband in hiding in Kerala | India Information
4 min learnBhopal, ThiruvananthapuramUp to date: Jul 14, 2026 08:36 AM IST
For 3 months now, the girl who courted fame throughout the 2025 Mahakumbh Mela held in Uttar Pradesh and her husband have lived in worry, shifting from one metropolis to a different in Kerala chased by allegations concerning their inter-faith marriage.
The worry is closing in once more with the interim bail given by the Kerala Excessive Court docket to the husband, in a POCSO case in Madhya Pradesh, ending earlier this month. The Madhya Pradesh Police have been tenting in Kerala to take the husband again with them.
Final week, the Kerala Excessive Court docket additionally vacated its earlier order granting police safety to the couple, after police mentioned it couldn’t find them. Dhanam Kannan, a movie skilled who has been serving to the couple, instructed The Indian Categorical: “The couple had given my deal with to court docket, however they’re afraid of staying there due to the Madhya Pradesh Police. We have no idea the place they’ve gone. Therefore, the court docket vacated the safety order.”
The case towards the husband, 26, was filed by the girl’s father, claiming that his daughter was a minor, and had been kidnapped. She has nonetheless produced paperwork displaying she is eighteen. As she belongs to a tribal group, the Nationwide Fee for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) can be probing the matter.
‘Married to Pakistani’ risk
Of their plea to the Excessive Court docket in search of police safety, the couple mentioned she had acquired a name threatening her that whereas she had turn into “a star” throughout the Kumbh Mela, she had “acquired married to a Pakistani”. “The caller threatened to shoot her.”
Kannan mentioned: “Other than the Madhya Pradesh Police chasing him, hardline Hindutva teams in Kerala have additionally come out towards the husband.”
He mentioned different colleagues in addition to him have been serving to the 2. “They don’t keep in a single place. They aren’t utilizing cellphones both… They’re afraid that the Hindutva teams could hand them over to comparable teams in Madhya Pradesh.”
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Following the highlight on the girl on the Mahakumbh Mela, she had acquired some media gives, and it was for this that she got here to Kerala in March, and met the 26-year-old.
As they expressed their need to marry, her father filed a case and insisted she return with him to Madhya Pradesh. The couple sought asylum at a police station in Thiruvananthapuram and, after she refused to go along with her father, the movie crew stepped in to assist them get married.
A senior Madhya Pradesh Police officer mentioned the case was beneath investigation. “We’re continuing with our investigation and can also add further Sections regarding forgery within the case. Our investigation has discovered that false paperwork have been used to safe the wedding certificates.”
Father urges officers to reissue start cirtificate
Her mother and father have mentioned that the start certificates she submitted, displaying her date of start as January 1, 2008, and making her 18-plus, was the results of an error.
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The daddy mentioned he had submitted an software to “(the) Tehsildar requesting that an order be issued for the issuance of a revised start certificates for his daughter, reflecting the correct date of start obtained from hospital data”.
Sources mentioned the NCST has additionally decided the girl to be a minor, with the hospital the place she was born recording her date of start as December 30, 2009. That made her age on the time of the marriage on March 11 at 16 years, 2 months and 12 days, the panel reportedly has discovered.
Sources mentioned the NCST visited the temple the place the wedding was solemnized, to confirm the paperwork submitted by the couple, together with their Aadhaar playing cards, in addition to an enterprise that they have been adults and marrying of their very own free will
The NCST has reportedly advisable an FIR towards the husband beneath Sections of kidnapping a girl to compel her to marry, fraudulent marriage, rape, cohabitation beneath false pretences, a number of Sections beneath the POCSO Act, in addition to the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Faith Act.
