Nusrat Jahan says it wasn’t marriage, it was a live-in relationship
Agencies
MUMBAI: An interfaith marriage that wowed India two years ago has unravelled.
Muslim actress Nusrat Jahan made headlines when she married Kolkata businessman Nikhil Jain in 2019 in a Turkish town.
The photos of the lovey-dovey couple were all over the media even as some rabid Muslim clerics slammed her marriage to a non-Muslim man.
Now comes the shocking news about the unravelling of this fairytale interfaith union.
What is more shocking is Nusrat’s assertion that it wasn’t a marriage, it was a live-in relationship. And the separation has been very bitter.
Nusrat says, “Being on foreign land, as per Turkish Marriage Regulation, the ceremony is invalid. Moreover, since it was an interfaith marriage, it requires validation under 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.”
She also reveals that the couple separated a while ago. “Our separation happened long back, but I did not speak about it as I intended to keep my private life to myself. Thus, my actions must not be questioned based on “separation”, by the media or anybody I am not related to. The alleged marriage is not legal, valid and tenable; and thus, was not a marriage at all in the eye of law.”
Here is the bitter part of her separation.
Nusrat alleges that her jewellery and other assets are being ‘illegally held back’ by Nikhil Jain.
“My visit to any place for business or for the purpose of leisure, should not concern anyone with whom I have separated. All my expenses have always been borne by me contrary to claims by `someone’.”
Hitting out at Nikhil Jain, she says, “The one who claims to be ‘rich’ and ‘been used by me’ has been taking money from my account by accessing my bank accounts illegally and by illegitimate means at odd-hours of the night, even post-separation. I have already taken this up with the concerned banking authority and a police complaint shall be filed shortly. He has also been mishandling my funds from various accounts without my knowledge and consent. I am still battling it out with the bank & if need be, would release proof of the same.”
Nusrat says she has made “my own identity by my sheer hard work; thus I would not allow anyone not related to me to share the limelight or a title or followers, based on my identity.”
