Mumbai: There was a time when her father’s word was law in Mumbai. Now, late Mumbai underworld don Haji Mastan’s daughter Haseen Mastan Mirza has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah, seeking justice after what she describes as decades of suffering and an unending legal struggle.
She has posted a video message on Instagram in which she can be seen making the appeal with folded hands, urging the leaders to intervene so her long-pending case can be reopened, as reported by Republic TV.
She has claimed that she was forced into child marriage at the age of 12 and later endured severe violence, including the murder of her daughter and assault that left her hair pulled out when she was only 23 years old.
Haseen also alleged that her husband married eight times and subjected her to continuous trauma.
Despite these allegations, the accused has not been appearing in court for years, leaving her case stuck in the system, she claims.
According to her, people have repeatedly questioned her identity, with some claiming she is not Haji Mastan’s daughter. She seeks proof from those who dispute her lineage and asserts that her father’s name is her right and that denying her identity has become another form of injustice.
Haseen goes on to say she has neither a home nor financial support and has spent years running from one court date to another without resolution. Although she lived briefly with her husband’s seventh wife at her daughter’s insistence, she was not given the Juhu bungalow she claims she was promised, nor any compensation, she claims.
In her plea to the Prime Minister, she expressed gratitude for the central government’s triple talaq law, calling it a landmark step that delivered justice to Muslim women. She believes that the same boldness shown in passing the law will help reopen her case and compel her husband to face the court.
“My husband is my maternal uncle’s son. He did a lot of wrong to me. In the eight marriages he did, one is from Indore, one from Mumbai, and one from Pune, and yet he has ruined my life. I was forcibly married at the age of 12, just 12 years,” she says.
She only seeks formal recognition of her identity as Haji Mastan’s daughter and the reopening of her case. Haseen expresses hope that the PM, who she says helps people across the country, will help her too.
