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While commenting over all these affairs, Mr A K Khan, the Additional Commissioner of Hyderabad Police, said, "It is very difficult to stop all these illegal activities with the help of law.What we can do is to observe such fabulously rich Arabs closely so that their illicit activities could be checked.
The real significance of the above comments of Mr Khan is that, the said temporary marriages between the rich Arabs and the unfortunate Indian girls are sanctified by a section of believers, and as, in addition to that, Islamic law allows polygamy, it is not possible for the law enforcing authorities to bring the offenders behind the bar.Legal action can only be taken when the girl in question is below eighteen.In Islam, marriage is simply a social contract and the paper that contains all the terms and conditions of this social contract, is called nikahnama.The central point of a nikahnama is the mehr, or the cash which the groom will have to pay the bride if he divorces her.