KOZHIKODE: The mysterious death of a woman, a native of Chulliod in Wayanad, along with two children in Gundelpett near Mysore on Thursday, has again brought to light the plight of the victims of Mysore marriages.
It was in the late 1990s that the tales of Muslim women married off to Mysore by poor parents were reported from various border hamlets of the district.
Many of these women were tortured and abandoned. Those who escaped the torture are leading a pathetic life back home.
The woman, Mubahseera, 24, daughter of Mariyam and Muhammed Pulikkal of Thovarimala, a far-flung village near Chulliode, was found hanging from the roof of her house in Gundelpett on Thursday. She had allegedly killed her two children Muhammed Shayal, 3, and Denha Fathima, three months.
But her relatives suspect that it is a murder. The bodies of the victims were brought home after post-mortem in Gundelpett on Thursday. The last rites of the trio were held at the burial ground of Juma Masjid, Chulliod in the evening.
Shaji Kottayil, a rights’ activist of the locality, told DC that the village of Thovarimala had many such victims.
“Many of them were either abandoned by husbands or they escaped extreme torture,” he said and added that the number of women married off to Mysore from the area had dwindled due to the stiff protest from various forums.
“Though a few of them live happily, the majority had to end lives, flee for life or suffer extreme torture,” he added.
