Bigamy: Mob beats up woman MLA in Assam

An irate mob on Friday stormed into a hotel room in Karimganj town in southern Assam where controversial Congress legislator Rumi Nath had put up along with her new husband,causing grievous injury to both of them.

An irate mob on Friday stormed into a hotel room in Karimganj town in southern Assam where controversial Congress legislator Rumi Nath had put up along with her new husband,causing grievous injury to both of them. The police rescued them and packed them off to Guwahati.

Nath was in the news recently for having married her Facebook boyfriend without obtaining a proper divorce from her husband Rakesh Singh,following which the latter filed a case saying she was kidnapped.

Karimganj SP Pradip Pujari said the 500-strong mob first shouted slogans in front of the hotel and then threw stones before barging into the room to assault Nath and Jackie Zakir.

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Several police personnel were injured too… The crowd shifted focus to the Karimganj police station where we first shifted the duo, he said.

Three cases have been registered in connection with the incident. While one was registered on the basis of a complaint filed by Nath,one was filed by a couple of local reporters who too were assaulted. A third case of assaulting policemen and preventing them from performing their duty has been also registered, the SP said.

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