Mumbai:
At 61, Habiba Ishak Khan is feeling emotionally handicapped at the betrayal of one of her sons. Her younger son Ashraf allegedly forged her signature and mortgaged her house with Central Bank to get a loan. He got support from Habiba's brother-in-law Unus Abdul Wahab Khan.
The Andheri metropolitan magistrate's court recently passed directions to the MIDC police station to lodge an FIR against Ashraf and Khan. In her petition, Habiba has illustrated how she and her deceased husband bought the ground floor flat in Unus House from her brother-in-law, who lived on the upper floor, in 1998 for Rs1 lakh. Her husband passed away after a few months. Both her sons lived in separate rooms in the same house.
In 2001, when Ashraf threatened Habiba to vacate the house, she sought the court's help and got Ashraf arrested. But he got bail, and went off to Alibaug to pursue business.
All was well since, until Habiba saw a notice of auction of Central Bank on her gate claiming that the owner had taken a loan by mortgaging the house for Rs 9 lakh. Habiba found out that Khan and Ashraf had forged her signature and her house was re-sold to Ashraf.
When MIDC police station refused help and dismissed her case as a civil matter, she approached the court. Habiba's advocate Fazil Hussain Shaikh said, "My client has been fighting this battle alone; she has an 85-year-old paralysed mother to take care of."
Habiba exclaimed in between sobs, "I have given them several chances to mend their ways. They just want my property. If this is how sons are, I don't want them. Only my daughter Shaheen takes care of me and my mother."
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