17/05/2012

Women 'Kidnapped Following Arranged Marriage Refusal'

A court has heard how a Bradford woman was drugged and kidnapped by her family after refusing an arranged marriage.

Preston Crown Court has been told that Naila Afsar's parents, Mohammed Khan, 55, and Shamim Akhtar, 56, and brother Shamrez Khan, 32, had a disagreement with her after she wed a Newcastle man in secret after refusing the arranged marriage with her cousin.


The 23-year-old agreed to attend a reconciliation meeting the Accrington home of her sister Saima Mahmood, 29, and Zahid Mahmood, 34. At the premises she was then allegedly drugged and bundled into a car, to be taken back to the family home in Bradford.

The five face charges of kidnap, false imprisonment and administering a drug.

The trial is set to continue.

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