I did not go to the mosque, I couldn’t bear to watch the exhumation, but we will go to any extent to find the truth,” Rashid, Rifa Mehnu’s father, said.
A few days after the body reached us, we requested for the postmortem report, and it was then that we realised that it was not done.
“Apart from that, we saw the CCTV visuals from the shop where Rifa worked, in which Mehnu was seen talking to her for a long time and hitting her.
Her photos were mostly those of family, showing cute moments with her son and husband.
Rashid alleged that Rifa had been subjected to domestic violence by her husband ever since they were in a relationship.
He also recalled that this happened even when the couple were in a relationship, before they got married.
Meanwhile, in an interview to an online channel, Mehnaz alleged that when he and Rifa had gone on a trip to Munnar with friends in December 2021, he saw some texts and videos of Rifa on the phone of one of her friends, Bacha, seemingly indicating that Bacha and Rifa were in a relationship.
However, Rashid refuted the allegations, saying that Mehnu was always suspicious about Rifa.
After her death, Riju tried to give this voice note to the Dubai police, but Mehnu convinced him saying if the clip was given then the police would not allow them to send the body home, and they would all be trapped,” Rashid said.