
Karimganj/Guwahati: A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the assault on Congress MLA Rumi Nath and her second husband at a Karimganj hotel which sparked off violent protests and bandh in south Assam's Barak Valley.
Karimganj Deputy Commissioner Debeswar Malakar on Monday ordered the inquiry into the incident. The report of the inquiry is to be submitted within 15 days, official sources said.
In another development, three personnel security officers of the MLA were suspended due to dereliction of duty.
"The PSOs had failed to protect Nath and her second husband and had fled from the spot when the mob barged into the hotel where the duo were staying", the sources said. Nath, who represents Borkhola constituency in Cachar, and her second husband were beaten up and injured on Friday night in a hotel in Karimganj by a group of people who were angry over her second marriage without having divorced her first husband....
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01:04 PM, Jul 02, 2012

New Delhi: Thirty-three-year-old Congress MLA from Barak Valley (Assam) Rumi Nath was on Friday night thrashed by a hundred-strong mob at a Karimganj hotel. Rumi has invited the wrath of various groups for allegedly leaving her first husband and 2-year-old daughter and eloping and marrying her Facebook friend, 28-year-old Zakir Hussain. Rumi had gone to meet her father on Friday when the incident happened. What is even worse is that...

10:28 AM, Jun 30, 2012