Hyderabad: What began as a fairytale wedding for a young woman from Lakdikapul has turned into a nightmare. Hana Ahmed Khan, 31, has knocked on the doors of the Chicago police and India’s ministry of external affairs after her husband, a US-based police officer, allegedly abandoned her in Hyderabad and returned to America, taking along her passport, green card, and vital documents.Hana married Mohammad Zain Uddin, 36, a native of Nimboliadda in Kachiguda who later became a US citizen, on June 22, 2022, at a mosque in Abids in the presence of both families. It was only in Feb 2024 that she could finally join him in the US after completing all official formalities. There, she received her green card and social security number, marking the start of what she hoped would be a new life. But her dreams shattered within a year. On Feb 7, 2025, the couple flew to Hyderabad and checked into a city hotel. A few days later, Zain allegedly asked Hana to visit her family — and while she was away, he quietly checked out, boarded a flight back to the US, and left with her immigration papers, passport, and identification. “I was devastated. He didn’t just abandon me, he also shut every door for me to even fight my case legally in the US,” Hana told social workers. Left stranded, Hana has now appealed to the MEA to help her return to America to pursue legal action. She said her husband sent her father a WhatsApp message claiming he had obtained a divorce decree from a US court. “I don’t even know how or when I was divorced,” she reportedly told her family. Social worker and MBT leader Amjed Ullah Khan has written to external affairs minister S Jaishankar, urging intervention. “At the very least, the US embassy in Delhi and the consulate in Hyderabad should hear her out and help her secure a duplicate green card so that she can travel back to fight her case,” he wrote.Hana has since obtained a fresh passport from the Hyderabad regional passport office, after lodging a complaint that her husband had taken away her original.Hana’s brother Mohammed Munawar alleged that her ordeal began long before this. “When my sister was in Chicago, he assaulted her. The matter even reached the notice of the Chicago police, who counselled them. Later, when she called the authorities again in June, they took her statement and recorded past incidents of assault,” he said. Munawar added that his father, Ahmed Munawar Khan, confronted Zain about abandoning Hana, only to be told bluntly that he had already divorced her. “It came as a shock to us. My father is heartbroken. We do not accept such sudden divorces in our family. My sister deserves justice,” he said.
