'Took my passport, green card and vanished': US cop abandons wife in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: What began arsenic a fairytale wedding for a young pistillate from Lakdikapul has turned into a nightmare. Hana Ahmed Khan, 31, has knocked connected the doors of the Chicago constabulary and India's ministry of outer affairs aft her husband, a US-based constabulary officer, allegedly abandoned her successful Hyderabad and returned to America, taking on her passport, greenish card, and captious documents.Hana joined Mohammad Zain Uddin, 36, a autochthonal of Nimboliadda successful Kachiguda who aboriginal became a US citizen, connected June 22, 2022, astatine a mosque successful Abids successful the beingness of some families. It was lone successful Feb 2024 that she could yet articulation him successful the US aft completing each authoritative formalities. There, she received her greenish paper and societal information number, marking the commencement of what she hoped would beryllium a caller life.

But her dreams shattered wrong a year. On Feb 7, 2025, the mates flew to Hyderabad and checked into a metropolis hotel.

A fewer days later, Zain allegedly asked Hana to sojourn her household — and portion she was away, helium softly checked out, boarded a formation backmost to the US, and near with her migration papers, passport, and identification. "I was devastated. He didn't conscionable wantonness me, helium besides unopen each doorway for maine to adjacent combat my lawsuit legally successful the US," Hana told societal workers. Left stranded, Hana has present appealed to the MEA to assistance her instrumentality to America to prosecute ineligible action.

She said her hubby sent her begetter a WhatsApp connection claiming helium had obtained a divorcement decree from a US court. "I don't adjacent cognize however oregon erstwhile I was divorced," she reportedly told her family. Social idiosyncratic and MBT person Amjed Ullah Khan has written to outer affairs curate S Jaishankar, urging intervention. "At the precise least, the US embassy successful Delhi and the consulate successful Hyderabad should perceive her retired and assistance her unafraid a duplicate greenish paper truthful that she tin question backmost to combat her case," helium wrote.Hana has since obtained a caller passport from the Hyderabad determination passport office, aft lodging a ailment that her hubby had taken distant her original.Hana's member Mohammed Munawar alleged that her ordeal began agelong earlier this. "When my sister was successful Chicago, helium assaulted her. The substance adjacent reached the announcement of the Chicago police, who counselled them. Later, erstwhile she called the authorities again successful June, they took her connection and recorded past incidents of assault," helium said. Munawar added that his father, Ahmed Munawar Khan, confronted Zain astir abandoning Hana, lone to beryllium told bluntly that helium had already divorced her. "It came arsenic a daze to us. My begetter is heartbroken. We bash not judge specified abrupt divorces successful our family. My sister deserves justice," helium said.