Nagaon, Oct 23 (PTI) A Muslim man who took a Hindu identity and married a woman from that faith has been arrested in central Assam’s Hojai district based on the complaint of his wife, said a police officer.<\/p>\n
The woman with the help of District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) of Hojai lodged a written complaint before Hojai Superintendent of Police against her husband, Lumding Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) S K Sarma told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n
As per the complaint of the woman, hailing from upper Assam’s Dhemaji district, she came in contact with the man as both used to work in Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n
She claimed that the man, who hails from Nakhuti’s 2 Sarke Basti area under Lumding police station in Hojai district hide his religious identity and introduced himself as a Hindu and married her and then started torturing her both mentally and physically.<\/p>\n
After some months, her husband allegedly looted a large amount of money from her and fled from Tamil Nadu to Assam’s Nakhuti area, she claimed.<\/p>\n
As her husband did not contacted her, the woman visited Hojai’s Doboka area where she learnt about the real religious identity and other details of her husband.<\/p>\n
Hojai Superintendent of Police Barun Purkayastha on receiving the complaint sent a team from Lumding Police station to apprehend the accused from his village on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
A case was registered at Lumding Police Station and the accused was arrested the same night and produced at a local court in Hojai on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“It is a case of ‘love jihad’ as a man of one faith pretended to be of another to marry the woman”, the Officer-in-charge of Lumding police station asserted.<\/p>\n
Police have started an investigation in this connection, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nagaon, Oct 23 (PTI) A Muslim man who took a Hindu identity and married a woman from that faith has been arrested in central Assam’s Hojai district based on the complaint of his wife, said a police officer. The woman with the help of District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) of Hojai lodged a written complaint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}