काश हर मोहल्ले में ऐकू लाल होते

उच्चतम न्यायालय के फैसले से ऐकू लाल खुश





सुप्रीम कोर्ट का फैसला अकबर को गोद लिए पिता के लिए काफी राहत भरा रहा. अकबर सात साल पहले चाय की दुकान लगाने वाले ऐकू लाल को मिला था.

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August 12, 2011

सुप्रीम कोर्ट के विचार के लिए एक अजीब मामला पेश किया गया है .अकबर नाम के एक बच्चे की कस्टडी का केस है . बच्चा मुसलमान माँ बाप का है . करीब सात साल पहले जब अकबर छः साल का था ,अपने पिता के साथ इलाहाबाद के एक शराबखाने पर गया था . बाप ने शराब पी और नशे में धुत्त हो गया . बच्चा भटक गया लेकिन बाप को पता ही नहीं चला कि बच्चा कहाँ गया . गुमशुदगी की कोई रिपोर्ट नहीं लिखाई गयी. लखनऊ के कैसर बाग़ में बच्चा चाय की एक दुकान के सामने गुमसुम हालत में पाया गया. चाय की दुकान के मालिक ऐकू लाल ने बच्चे को देखा और साथ रख लिया . बहुत कोशिश की कि बच्चे के माता पिता मिल जाएँ. मुकामी टी वी चैनलों पर इश्तिहार भी दिया लेकिन कहीं कोई नहीं मिला. जब कोई नहीं मिला जो बच्चे को अपना कह सके तो उसने बच्चे को स्कूल में दाखिल करवा दिया .

बच्चे का नाम वही रखा , धर्म नहीं बदला, स्कूल में बच्चे के माता पिता का वही नाम लिखवाया जो बच्चे ने बताया था. लेकिन ऐकू ने इस बच्चे को अपने जीवन का मकसद समझ कर तय किया कि वह शादी नहीं करेगा . उसे शक़ था कि उसकी होने वाली पत्नी कहीं बच्चे का अपमान न करे . तीन साल बाद अकबर के माँ बाप को पता चला कि वह ऐकू लाल के साथ है.उन्होंने बच्चे की कस्टडी की मांग की लेकिन ऐकू लाल ने मना कर दिया क्योंकि बच्चा ही उसे छोड़कर जाने को तैयार नहीं था .बच्चे के माँ बाप ने इलाहाबाद हाई कोर्ट में मुक़दमा कर दिया और बच्चे की कस्टडी की फ़रियाद की .उन्होंने ऐकू लाल पर आरोप लगाया कि उसने बच्चे को बंधुआ मजदूर की तरह रखा हुआ था . मामला २००७ में इलाहाबाद हाई कोर्ट में जस्टिस बरकत अली जैदी की अदालत में सुनवाई के लिए आया.

माननीय न्यायमूर्ति ने आदेश दिया कि बच्चे की इच्छा और केस की अजीबो गरीब हालत के मद्दे नज़र बच्चे को ऐकू लाल की कस्टडी में रखना ही ठीक होगा. बच्चे की माँ का वह तर्क भी हाई कोर्ट ने स्वीकार नहीं किया कि ऐकू लाल ने बच्चे को बंधुआ मजदूर की तरह रखा था. . बच्चे के स्कूल की मार्कशीट अच्छी थी और स्कूल में उसकी पढाई अव्वल दर्जे की थी.हालात पर गौर करने के बाद जस्टिस जैदी ने कहा कि अपना देश एक धर्मनिरपेक्ष देश है . जाति बिरादरी की बातों को न्याय के रास्ते में नहीं आने देना चाहिए . जब अंतर जातीय विवाह हो सकते हैं तो अंतर जातीय या अंतर-धर्म के बाप बेटे भी हो सकते हैं . बच्चा ऐकू लाल के पास ही रहेगा ,इसमें बच्चे की इच्छा के मद्दे नज़र उसके जैविक माता पिता की प्रार्थना को नकार कर बच्चे को ऐकू लाल के पास ही रहने दिया गया.

अब मामला सुप्रीम कोर्ट में है. जहां जस्टिस डी के जैन और एच एल दत्तु की बेंच में बुधवार को इस पर विचार हुआ .अदालत ने सवाल पूछा कि जब अकबर का बाप शराब की दुकान पर बच्चे को भूलकर घर चला आया था तो बच्चे की माँ ने उसके गायब होने की रिपोर्ट क्यों नहीं लिखवाई थी. बेंच ने कहा कि सबको मालूम् है कि कानून के हिसाब से इतनी कम उम्र के बच्चे की स्वाभाविक गार्जियन उसकी माँ होती है . हम तो तुरंत आदेश देकर मामले को निपटा सकते हैं.लेकिन बच्चे की मर्ज़ी महत्वपूर्ण है . वह उस आदमी को छोड़कर नहीं जाना चाहता जिसने अब तक उसका पालन पोषण किया है .

सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने बच्चे की माँ शहनाज़ के वकील से कहा कि उसकी आमदनी के बारे में एक हलफनामा दाखिल करें .लेकिन इसके पहले बेंच ने शहनाज़ के वकील से जानना चाहा कि वे क्यों ऐसा आदेश करें जिससे बच्चा उस आदमी से दूर हो जाए जिसने उसकी सात साल तक अच्छी तरह से देखभाल की है . ऐकू लाल की भावनाओं को बेंच ने नोटिस किया और कहा कि उसने बच्चे का नाम तक नहीं बदला , उसके माँ बाप का नाम वही रखा , बच्चे के माँ बाप को तलाशने के लिए विज्ञापन तक दिया.यह वही माँ बाप हैं जिन्होंने अकबर के गायब होने के बाद रिपोर्ट तक नहीं लिखाया था. बहर हाल मामला देश की सर्वोच्च अदालत की नज़र में है और इस पर अगली सुनवाई के वक़्त फैसला हो पायेगा.लेकिन ऐकू लाल की तरह के लोग हे एवाह लोग हैं जिन पर हिंद को नाज़ है



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http://thrill-suspense.blogspot.in/2011/12/crime-patrol-episode-69.html



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Akbar prefers Hindu guardian to Muslim mother

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Lucknow, Aug 12, 2011:

‘I do not wish to go back to my mother,’ 12-year-old Akbar says, looking up with love at his foster father Aiku Lal who has brought him up like his own since he found him sobbing and abandoned in a park eight years ago. The boy’s mother is fighting a custody battle in the Supreme Court.



Reacting to the petition moved by his mother Shahnaz in the apex court, Akbar told IANS: ‘I just do not wish to go back to my mother who is not in a position to even continue my studies.’



Lal, who has been not just a guardian, friend, philosopher and guide, but also looked after him as a real parent, shivers at the very thought of parting company with the boy. After all, Lal’s life has been centred around Akbar since 2003, when he found him in a park overlooking the tiny tea stall that he runs for his livelihood in Lucknow’s Qaiser Bagh area.



Significantly, all arguments raised by the mother against her child’s stay with a third person belonging to another religion were trashed by the Allahabad High Court.



‘When there are inter-caste and inter-religion marriages, I see nothing wrong in the guardianship of a Muslim child by a Hindu, specially since the child dotes on him and does not want to leave him,’ ruled the high court Judge Barkat Ali Zaidi, whose verdict has now been challenged in the Supreme Court.



The court had taken serious view of the fact that neither Akbar’s father nor mother lodged a report with the police about their son when he went missing from Allahabad.



It was on a winter evening of 2003 that Akbar, then four, was out with his father on the streets of Allahabad and the father decided to halt at a country liquor shop. Apparently Akbar slipped away and realisation dawned on the father only after reaching his home.



No one knows how the boy found his way to the Qaiser Bagh Baradari park in Lucknow, where Lal spotted him in an abandoned condition, sobbing.



Lal gave the child a new life, but made it a point to ensure that not just Akbar’s name but his religion remained unchanged. Akbar is clearly growing up as a true Muslim under the guardianship of a Hindu foster father, who gets him the best of everything he can afford.



The rustic tea-stall owner got Akbar to learn his Quranic lessons and to offer daily ‘namaz’. And for his formal education, Akbar walks down to the close-by Mumtaz Intermediate College where he is a student of Class 7. This unique father ensures that the boy goes to school in well-ironed uniform every day.



Asked why he chose to remain a bachelor, Aiku Lal said: ‘Well, I was always apprehensive that a Hindu woman may not agree to bring up my Muslim son, therefore I made up my mind to remain a bachelor.’



Looking at the father with a smile on his face and twinkle in his eyes, Akbar asks: ‘Now see, don’t we make a complete family?’



But Aiku Lal’s only dilemma today is – what would he do if the Supreme Court were to order Akbar’s restoration to his biological mother, who is now insistent on getting back his custody.



‘I am only praying to god that the court does not compel us to part; I know I will have to abide by the court order but that would be the end of my purpose in life,’ he avers with tears in his eyes.

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Crime Patrol: Muslim child raised by a hindu at Lucknow (U.P.) Episode 69, 70

Aiku & Akbar: Two religions, one family, and a court approval

(This episode is based on a true story of Lucknow at UP)

Crime Patrol: Tea Owner Kishen Finds 3 Year Old Imran Alone In The Garden - Episode 69 - 23rd December 2011

Crime Patrol: Judge Reveals His Final Judgement In Regards To Imran's Case - Episode 70 - 24th December 2011

Kids inform their Mother and Kishen who owns a tea stall about a kid who was lying alone in the garden thus the child doesn't reveal anything accept his name Imran and firstly, Kishen admits him in the hospital and also informs cops about the missing kid, later Cops not only searches Imran's parents in Lucknow but also all over Uttar Pradesh. Cops comes to know that there was no such missing report of a kid in the area. Kishen decides to take Imran's responsibilites and as time passes Imran turns 5 year old and a shocking thing takes place as Imran's parents identify Imran in an interview with Kishen and approaches Cops to claim Imran as their son. Imran disagrees to accept Jawed as his father and reveals that he wants to live with kishendas instead of his parents thus Jawed drags Kishendas to court. What will Kishendas do now? Will he fight for Imran?

The inside story

Lucknow, Sun Aug 14 2011: Fourteen-year-old Akbar’s appeal to the judge to let him remain with his Hindu guardian instead of transferring him to his Muslim mother has shot Aiku Lal Sandil to national headlines. However, for the tea vendor from Baradari, Lucknow, taking in Akbar wasn’t something he thought twice about. Having been raised by a Muslim man himself, Sandil couldn’t just look away when he found the six-year-old lost boy in a Lucknow park eight years ago.

“I am a Hindu brought up by a kind Muslim man. When I found Akbar, it was like God telling me that it is time to return the love and care I got from His people. I was never forced to change my religion and, having got that education from my guardian, it was my duty to take care of the child and bring him up as per his own religion,” Sandil says.

The bond the two share was acknowledged by the Allahabad High Court in January 2008 when it turned down Akbar’s biological mother Shahnaz Begum’s habeas corpus petition. Shahnaz had argued that since Akbar was a Muslim, if Sandil raised him, it would “create dichotomy and disharmony in the social sphere and in their relationship”.

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 Dismissing her petition, after Akbar said he wanted to live with Sandil rather than his parents, Justice Barkat Ali Zaidi said India is a secular country where the consideration of caste and creed should not be allowed to prevail. “...If there can be inter-caste marriages... there can also be an inter-caste ‘father and son’ relationship and that need not raise eyebrows,” the judge said.

Shahnaz has now moved the Supreme Court, and last week it asked her to file an affidavit on her monthly income, the property she owns and the school where her other two children study.

What the high court found strange was that Shahnaz approached it in 2007, four years after Akbar went missing, and that she had not even filed an FIR in the intervening period.

Akbar’s parents first stepped forward to claim their son after they saw Sandil on TV, recounting his story to mediapersons at a political party’s office in Qaiserbagh where he briefly worked. “They came to me... I did not know them. Later on, the district administration decided that since they had not lodged any FIR, Akbar would live with me,” says Sandil. Later, the parents moved the high court.

A six-year-old at the time he got lost, Akbar had gone to a liquor shop with his father in Allahabad, where they lived. While the father was busy buying liquor, he strayed away and somehow landed up in Lucknow.

It was Sandil’s neighbour Kushmavati Devi who first noticed Akbar on a cold winter evening in 2003, playing with her children in a park next to Baradari. “As the children returned home, he started crying. He said his name was Akbar and that his father had gone to bring food and also that he lived in Pan Dariba. Sandil was also here and I handed over Akbar to him,” remembers Kushmavati.

With five children of her own, Kushmavati has been a foster parent to the boy. It’s at her house that he drops in for most meals.

Sandil says when he found Akbar, he had liver problems, weak limbs and an infected foot which made it difficult for him to walk. “I took him to doctors; I also massaged his limbs with medicated ointments. Once he broke his hand and I carried him as far as Etaunja to get treatment,” say Kushmavati.

Sandil recounts how he himself was brought up by Chaudhary Mujtaba Hussain, who was a member of a governing body that looked after the well-known Baradari moument. “I have seen Aiku living with my father ever since I was a child,” says Chaudhary Hasan Imam, Hussain’s son.

Hussain taught Sandil how to read and write English, Hindi and Urdu, though he never went to school. Despite his meagre income, Sandil has ensure that doesn’t happen to Akbar. “Initially, Akbar was enrolled in Prathamic Vidhyalaya, Qaiser Bagh, Refugee Camp, and two years later, he was enrolled in Queens Inter College. Recently, I shifted him to Mumtaz Inter College, Aminabad, where the classes are more regular,” says Sandil. He also pays Rs 100 a month for a daily, one-hour tuition in a nearby area.

“My income is not much but I am doing all I can to educate Akbar. I hardly save Rs 500 per month,” says Sandil.

Every Friday, Sandil also ensures, Akbar goes to the masjid to offer namaaz. “Abhi namaaz yaad to nahin hai par main jumme ke jumme masjid jata zaroor hoon (Though I do not remember the prayers as of now, I definitely go to the masjid every Friday),” says Akbar.

If the Supreme Court directs that Akbar be given to his parents, Sandil says, he will abide. “But if it is against the will of Akbar, I will not leave the child crying with his mother.”

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