Humayun Kabir IPS was the Commissioner of Chandannagar. He joined the Trinimol Congress only three months before his retirement citing personal reasons. He got the ticket of the Assembly constituency Debra of the West Midinipur District of West Bengal, a part of Ghatal Parliamentary Constituency. His parents Arsad Ali and Jinatun Begum still live here.
The role of Humayun Kabir IPS as Chandannagar Police Commissioner came to the limelight when he arrested three Bhartiya Janata Party activists, who were allegedly raised the slogan “Golo Maro” at a rally on 21st January, 2021. It was gathered at a road-show led by the BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who left TMC last year and followed the saffron brigade.
Humayun Kabir won the seat in an interesting electoral battle between two super cops as the BJP had fielded Bharat Ghosh, Vice-President of the saffron Party and ex-IPS Officer.
Direction of Movie Aaliya
Apart from politics, Humayun Kabir has interests in the creative and literary world as well. He has directed the movie Aaleya.
“To spread mass awareness on social issues which he was not always free to do in his official capacity, former IPS officer Humayun Kabir turns director for Aaleya exploring the unjustified custom of triple talaq.”
Filmmaker Aniket Chattopadhyay is creative director of this ambitious project and Humayun Kabir has directed it. The screenplay is by Padmanava Dasgupta. Aaleya is concerned with a strong woman question around the unfair practice of one-sided triple talaq pronounced by a Muslim husband when he wants to divorce his wife. Aaleya is a minor Muslim girl who is married against her wishes to a man of her parents’ choice.
https://www.thestatesman.com/supplements/marquee/questioning-unfair-practice-1502655303.html
She questions the one-sided custom, legitimised by Muslim marriage laws, that when the bride has the right to say “kabul” during the nikaah ceremony, why is she not given the same right in case of talaq? How and why does the husband have the right to utter talaq thrice, according to his wish on an impulse or on the spur of the moment and reduce his wife’s life into debris she cannot come out of? But instead of getting an answer, she is punished by the powers-that-be.
She questions the one-sided custom, legitimised by Muslim marriage laws, that when the bride has the right to say “kabul” during the nikaah ceremony, why is she not given the same right in case of talaq? How and why does the husband have the right to utter talaq thrice, according to his wish on an impulse or on the spur of the moment and reduce his wife’s life into debris she cannot come out of? But instead of getting an answer, she is punished by the powers-that-be.
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