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Ameena case

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Ameena case is 1991 case of selling of 10 year young girl Ammena of Hyderabad, India to a person from Saudi Arabia. The child bride was rescued on August 10, 1991 by the air hostess Amrita Ahluwalia when the former was being taken to Saudi Arabia. Later it was found Badruddin and his wife Sabira Begum had sold their 10-year-old daughter Ameena into marriage for a reported $240 to a 60-year-old Saudi Arabian. The case unearthed bride shopping in Hyderabad by persons from middle east and raised a lot of attention at that time.

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