Since the past few days, there had been rumours about TMC MP Nusrat Jahan’s pregnancy. Recently, the lady politician flaunted her baby bump confirming that she is indeed expecting.
However, the controversy around the father of her child continues, since she has dismissed any relationship with her estranged husband Nikhil Jain. Her husband too had given a statement that confirming that there was no co-habitation with Nusrat since more than six months and he is not the father of this child.
In the photograph that has gone viral on social media, Nusrat can be seen in a white dress alongside Bengali actor Srabanti Chatterjee.
Background
Nusrat & Nikhil had a fairytale wedding in Turkey in 2019. However, the relationship crumbled soon and Nusrat has now informed media that her marriage ceremony with Jain is ‘invalid’. Quoting Jahan, she recently claimed,
Being on foreign land, as per Turkish Marriage Regulation, the ceremony is invalid. Moreover, since it was an interfaith marriage, it requires validation under the Special Marriage Act in India, which did not happen. As per the court of law, it is not a Marriage, but a relationship or a live-in relationship. Thus, the question of divorce does not arise.
Nikhil Jain’s Statement
Nikhil Jain on the other hand slammed Nusrat’s statement and stated that she refused to register their marriage in India under Special Marriage Act, despite him repeatedly asking her to do same. He also alleged that her attitude towards him changed within a year. Jain said,
On November 5, 2020, she left my flat with bag and baggage along with her personal values, papers and documents and shifted to her Ballygunge flat and thereafter we never stayed together after being husband-and-wife. The rest of her personal belongings along with the documents (IT returns etc) were also sent to her shortly after her shifting.
MDO Take:
- Many media channels have been running the Nusrat story, merely because they are probably enjoying good TRPs
- However, we want to raise a critical question with regards to the matrimonial laws in India
- Are they similar in spirit when it comes to rights of wife Vs rights of husband?
- Could a man flaunt his marriage pictures and then have a baby with another woman, without being officially divorced?
- Could a man just wash off his responsibility stating he was not legally liable since there was no registration of the marriage?
- On one hand, many women’s rights champions have come forward in support of married Nusrat and her privacy
- These same equal rights champions would ensure that a married man would be jailed if he dared to do so
- This is nothing to do with feminism or empowerment; this is to point out the hypocrisy and gender bias that Indian legal system permits in favour of women
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Team MDO,
While publishing articles and being vocal on social media is good to increase awareness in society but unfortunately it’s a long and arduous to bring any change in society, which is more or less dead towards such issues.
Not sure whether you already have, but there should be a team on lawyers who raise these issues in various court as PIL or otherwise. There will be expenses for which you can do crowd funding case by case basis.
Hi Ashish,
We are a media portal and firmly believe in representing the voice for men. Any change in laws happen, when society is well informed on the pros and cons of any law.
I agree with Ashish there areany laws in India which favour only women in India the media is baised the courts and governments are against men there is need for gender neutral laws so we need to fill PIL against these laws which are discriminatory in nature the society will always see men as wrong and women always right it’s time we standard up as men and realise that many laws are baised and need to change. Let’s men support men as women support women .