Assam Congress lawmaker assaulted for
converting to Islam
Saturday June 30, 2012 08:20:14 PM,
IANS
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Guwahati: A woman
Congress legislator from Assam was thrashed by a mob at a hotel in Karimganj town late Friday night after she converted to Islam and
married a Muslim friend, police said Saturday.
Rumi Nath and her husband Jacky Jakir, who were badly injured,
were being shifted to the Guwahati Medical College and Hospital
Saturday for treatment, police said.
Sources close to the legislator said she was pregnant.
Nath, who had won the Borkhola assembly seat in Assam's Barak
Valley on a BJP ticket in 2006, had defected later and joined the
Congress. She contested the 2011 assembly elections on a Congress
ticket and retained the seat.
She married her friend and long time family acquaintance Jacky
Jakir, a Muslim by faith, last month and it angered most of her
supporters. She also converted to Islam before the marriage. She,
however, did not divorce her first husband, Rakesh Kumar Singh and
left the daughter from her first marriage in her parents' house.
After she revealed her second marriage, some of her supporters and
social organisations in the Barak Valley warned her not to enter
the area. The MLA had been out of the state with her second
husband since then.
"The couple came to Karimganj last evening and were staying for
the night at the Hotel Nakshatra. Angry residents somehow came to
about the presence of Rumi Nath and her second husband and
physically assaulted the duo. Although she had body guards and
police reached the spot immediately, it became difficult to
control the huge mob," Karimganj Superintendent of Police Pradip
Pujari told IANS.
"While we were able to rescue both of them, they have been
seriously injured. Both the MLA and her husband Jacky Jakir are
being shifted to Guwahati for better treatment Saturday morning,"
Pujari said.
"The situation has been contained as of now but we are keeping a
close vigil so that it does not take any religious angle.
Investigation is also on to find out the culprits involved in the
incident on Friday night," he said.
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