GUWAHATI: A BJP MLA from Assam, Shiladitya Deb has smelt a rat in the much publicised episode of an Indian girl, Moushumi Das from Karimganj in Barak Valley of Assam eloping with a Bangladeshi Muslim guy and illegally entering that country to start her married life there after ‘getting converted’ to Islam.
The BJP has alleged there is a design in such cases of India Hindu girl being enticed by Bangladeshi Muslim guys coming to the country in the guise of traders. He said he would take up the matter with External Affairs ministry with request not to issue long term visa to Bagladeshi Muslims to prevent recurrence of such case.
The 21-year-old girl, Mousumi Das, who is now Fatima Zannat, went missing from her home on March 12 and her parents filed a kidnapping case with Karimganj Police. On March 27, a video on WhatsApp went viral in Karimganj which showed the girl sitting inside a Dhaka police station.
Another video showed her confessing that she has not been kidnapped but that she had eloped with her lover, Numan Badsha, whom she met at a trade fair in Karimganj. Clad in a burkha, she is seen in the video saying she has converted to Islam and is living happily with her new family at Dhaka.
Meanwhile, an official source here informed that the girl might be handed over to Indian authority considering her illegal entry into the country as she was not holding visa.
The girl has reportedly deposed before the first secretary of the Indian embassy at Dhaka that she has willingly entered Bangladesh through Agartala and has converted to Islam and is now married to Numan Badsha.
Numan had come on a business visa to participate at a trade expo at Karimganj, where he met Mousumi.
