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Odyssey of a mother ends in joy

M Abul Kalam Azad
Nusrat knows deep in her heart that her odyssey has ended favourably.
From police station to court, one ministry to another in Bangladesh and India — she pressed her case to win guardianship of her seven-year-old son Anan Intesar bin Fayez.
Her ex-husband AKM Nurul Fayez Bakul inflicted all the pains on her.
He left Anan to a residential school in Siliguri in the Indian state of West Bengal to separate the kid from his mother.
Nusrat Wahid never gave up hope until she beat all odds facing her and brought her child back home from Siliguri on April 14.
She studied architecture at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and now teaches at a private university in Dhaka.
Anan was only four when Bakul, also an architect, divorced her in April 2009, bringing some false allegations. The actual reason, though, was his extramarital affair, claimed Nusrat.
"Anan was with me after our separation. I left him in my parents' custody when I went to Hong Kong in September 2009 for pursuing higher studies. My son stayed happily with them,” she told The Daily Star.
But Bakul was not happy at all. He petitioned a lower court alleging that Nusrat got married to a foreigner and was planning to take Anan abroad.
He lost the legal battle. The court issued an injunction prohibiting Nusrat and Bakul taking Anan abroad.
Anan's passport was then surrendered to Ramna Police Station.
"When I returned from Hong Kong in December 2010, my ex-husband petitioned another court to place Anan under his guardianship," said Nusrat.
At that stage, Bakul and Nusrat inked a solenama (a legal agreement), which had allowed Anan to stay with his mother from Friday to Sunday each week.
But within a few weeks, Bakul denied Anan meeting her mother. “It made me file a petition in a court claiming that my son was not safe in his father's custody. One day, I took Anan to my home with the help of Ramna police,” mentioned Nusrat.
Bakul did not sit idle
either. He secured a court order for keeping Anan under his guardianship and took away Anan in December last year. From then on he did not even allow Nusrat to talk to Anan over the phone.
Nusrat in January came to know that Bakul was planning to take Anan abroad with an ill motive. "I informed the Ranma police about the matter citing a court injunction on taking my son abroad. But police remained indifferent to my prayer,” she complained.
Bakul managed a machine-readable passport and tourist visa for Anan and crossed the Burimari border into India with the boy on January 24. He got Anan admitted to the school in Siliguri.
Nusrat filed a case with Sutrapur Police Station accusing Bakul of passport forgery, kidnapping and violating the court order that had prohibited taking Anan abroad.
She also went to a lower court and got a verdict for keeping her son in her full custody.
The information was sent to the immigration police at Burimari land port.
Police arrested Bakul when he was entering Bangladesh and produced him before a court in Lalmonirhat. Rejecting his bail prayer, the court sent Bakul to jail.
He, however, secured bail after one month.
"I went to the foreign ministry in Dhaka seeking their support. I submitted a copy of the court order that had granted the custodianship of my son to me,” said Nusrat.
Failing to communicate with her son, Nusrat decided to visit the school in Siliguri. “Reaching the school on February 29, I showed the
court order to the authorities. But the principal didn’t even allow me to meet my son, let alone handing him over to me.”
She then went to Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata. She also consulted some lawyers there and all suggested her to take the matter to an Indian court.
“I flew to New Delhi and filed a petition with the Supreme Court to get back my child. The court issued an order to the Indian external affairs ministry asking it to take measures for handing over my son to me,” she added.
The external affairs ministry then forwarded the order to the home ministry.
She then went back to Siliguri on April 13 and finally managed to rescue Anan with the help of local police.
“Abbu took me to the school and left me alone there. I cried that night as I didn't find him,” Anan told The Daily Star.
He complained of being abused by some senior students and receiving corporal punishment from the teachers regularly.
Reunited with her son, Nusrat still receives frequent death threats from Baku!. "I am very worried about Anan. He might go missing any day.”
Bakul refuted the allegations Nusrat brought against him, including that of issuing threats. “We had a love marriage but it was her extra-marital affair that had resulted in divorce,” he claimed.
He said Anan admitted to the school in Siliguri to ensure a better future for him.
“As Nusrat has married again, Anan's future is not secure if he stays with her,” Bakul, an architect, told The Daily Star.
He said the solenama is still valid but Nusrat was keeping Anan illegally. “I will fight the legal battle and get custody of my son.”