Kerala Muslim remarriage: Police step up vigil around couple’s house

Kasaragod: Kerala police on Thursday said it intensified surveillance around the house of a Muslim lawyer, who remarried his wife under the Special Marriage Act to ensure their daughters’ financial security.
The vigil has been stepped in the area of advocate-actor C Shukkur’s house in Kanhangad here in the wake of news reports on threats by some outfits against the man and his family, a senior police officer told PTI.
Shukkur, on Wednesday, remarried his wife Sheena, the former Pro-Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, under the Special Marriage Act (SMA) in the presence of their three daughters at a Sub-Registrar’s office at Kanhangad in Hosdurg taluk.
The couple decided to get remarried under the SMA as under the Muslim personal laws, which also govern inheritance of property, daughters will only get two-thirds of their father’s property and the rest will go to his brothers in the absence of a male heir.
“As of now, there is nothing like personal protection. There is no full-time security for the family or the house. But, we have strengthened the vigil around the premises of their house,” the officer said.
When asked whether there was any intelligence input on any possible attack against the advocate, he replied in the negative.