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Not going for Shehzadi's last rites: Family
The New Indian Express Kannur
|March 05, 2025
THE family of Shehzadi Khan - the 33-year-old woman from Banda district in Uttar Pradesh (UP), who was executed on February 15 in Abu Dhabi for the death of a four-month-old child under her care - will not be going to Abu Dhabi for her final rites.
THE family of Shehzadi Khan - the 33-year-old woman from Banda district in Uttar Pradesh (UP), who was executed on February 15 in Abu Dhabi for the death of a four-month-old child under her care - will not be going to Abu Dhabi for her final rites. Instead, they have requested the authorities in Abu Dhabi through the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to conduct her last rites and share the photographs with the family.
Speaking exclusively to TNIE over the phone from Delhi, Shehzadi's elder brother Shamsher Khan said that the MEA has reached out to the family and assured that they would make arrangements for them to go to Abu Dhabi for her last rites.
This story is from the March 05, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kannur.
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