Bikes and fridges for relatives of BSP leader’s new son-in-law
March 26th, 2011 - 12:27 am ICT by IANS
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), March 25 (IANS) In the headlines some years ago for announcing a bounty of Rs.51 crore on the head of a Danish cartoonist for drawing a blasphemous cartoon of Prophet Mohammad, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Haji Yaqoob Quraishi again made waves at his daughter’s wedding, where he gave away fridges and bikes to the bride-groom’s family.
Besides a high-end Audi car, Quraishi gave away 51 motor-bikes and 51 refrigerators together with jewellery worth Rs.1 crore to the bride-groom’s family.
“The bikes and refrigerators are meant for the close relatives of the bridegroom, who gets the Audi as his gift,” Quraishi told reporters Friday.
Asked whether the lavish gesture was in conformity with the tenets of Islam , which denounces extravagance in weddings, he shot back: “Islam does not bar expression of happiness, and what I have done is not dowry.”
Quraishi runs a multi-crore meat processing unit in Meerut, which also exports meat to certain Middle East countries.
- Bangladeshi girl dumps groom for demanding dowry - Nov 16, 2011
- Women gamers thrash dowry-seekers online - Mar 21, 2012
- Bridegroom arrested after father demands dowry - May 13, 2011
- Congress's Muslim card, Ajit Singh's Jat clout on test in Tuesday's poll (Lead) - Feb 27, 2012
- 1,600 orphan couples marry in Yemen's biggest mass wedding - Oct 22, 2010
- Bride robbed of gold ornaments - Nov 22, 2010
- Giving dowry to save proposed marriage no offence: Court - Oct 21, 2010
- Malaysians seek brides from Vietnam, China - Jul 25, 2010
- Abu Dhabi prince attends mass wedding - Jan 15, 2012
- The grooms were drunk, the brides said no - May 01, 2012
- Magistrate sacked for demanding dowry - Dec 23, 2010
- Mangaloreans celebrate marriage of dead couple - Aug 04, 2010
- Mullahs frown at Sania-Shoaib pre-marriage 'proximity' - Apr 09, 2010
- Woman killed in Pakistan for not bringing car in dowry - Dec 21, 2010
- Overloaded bus plunges into river in southern Kenya, killing 23 - Aug 21, 2011
Tags: audi car, bahujan samaj party, bahujan samaj party bsp, blasphemous cartoon, bride groom, bridegroom, cartoon of prophet, cartoon of prophet mohammad, crore, danish cartoonist, dowry, extravagance, fridges, meat processing, middle east countries, motor bikes, quraishi, samaj, tenets of islam, worth rs