Bangla youth in Bengal in search of wife, moves HC against in-laws
Times of India | 12 March 2026
Kolkata: A Bangladeshi youth has moved Calcutta High Court pleading for help to get back his wife, who he said was illegally brought to India by her parents to keep her away from him and kept confined in a relative's house in Birati.
Arijit Sarkar, 23, who has also approached police, said his in-laws had forcibly brought his wife, Momi Saha, 19, to India barely a month after their marriage last Sept. He also alleged that Momi's parents and kin assaulted him when he went to meet her at the Birati house.
The families of Sarkar and his wife are neighbours in Madhyakanda near Narsingdi, in the Dhaka division. The couple had an affair for close to two years before they tied the knot, much against the wishes of Momi's family.
"A few days after our marriage, her parents persuaded her to visit them for a few days. But they brought her to India illegally, without any passport or visa. My wife has since then been kept in a house at Birati, near the Shrikrishna Jieu temple, where Momi's aunt Poli Saha live with her husband Uttam Saha," said Sarkar, a businessman.
TOI visited the house on Wednesday, but the couple and Momi were not there. The landlord said the couple had taken the house on rent about three years ago. A neighbour said she had seen a young woman staying with the Sahas there about a month ago.
Sarkar said he rushed to India after his wife sent him her location details through WhatsApp and requested him to take her back. "At the Birati house, when my wife tried to leave with me, her parents and kin assaulted me and dragged her back inside," he said. Sarkar then lodged an FIR against his in-laws with Nimta PS and moved the HC.
His lawyer, Mukul Biswas, said, "The case may be heard on March 17. We have digital evidence to prove that my client's wife was illegally brought to Bengal. It's a serious issue as these people entered India illegally from Bangladesh while the SIR is on." An officer in Barrackpore Commissionerate said, "We conducted a preliminary probe. The house mentioned in the plaint was searched but no one was there."