Kolkata: Actor-Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan has claimed that her marriage in Turkey with businessman Nikhil Jain in 2019 is not valid under Indian laws. However, a day after Nusrat Jahan’s statetemnt, her estranged ‘husband’ alleged that she had avoided always his requests to get the marriage registered. Nikhil Jain claimed that the behaviour of Nusrat Jahan started changing towards him since August 2020 when she was shooting a film. Then she left his home bag and baggage in November.
Jain said he had initially wanted to talk about the issue only in court and not in public. However, he was ‘dismayed with recent allegations against me and my family, regarding my married life and so it has become imperative’ for him to disclose some facts.
Nusrat is reportedly dating actor-Assembly poll candidate Yash Dasgupta in recent times. She said in a statement Wednesday that since her marriage ceremony with Jain had taken place in accordance with ‘Turkish Marriage Regulation’, the marriage is invalid in India.
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“Since it was an inter-faith marriage, it requires validation under Special Marriage Act in India, which did not happen. As per law, it is not a marriage, but a relationship or a live-in relationship,” Nusrat had pointed out. Nusrat had tied the knot with Jain at a destination wedding at Bodrum in Turkey in 2019, attended by a select few.
After winning the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 on a Trinamool Congress ticket, Nusrat hosted a grand wedding reception at a five-star hotel here. It was attended by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee among other dignitaries.
“Out of love, I had proposed to marry Nusrat which she gladly accepted. So we went for a destination wedding in Turkey,” Jain informed. After that, he said, they lived together as husband and wife and introduced themselves as a married couple in society.
“I devoted all my time and resources being a faithful and responsible husband. Friends, family and people close to us know everything that I did for her. My unconditional support for her is unchallenged,” Jain said.
“Since August 2020 during the shooting of a film, my wife’s behaviour started changing towards me, for reasons best known to her. During our stay together I requested her on a number of occasions to get the marriage registered. However, she avoided my requests,” Jain added.
Nusrat has been cast opposite Yash in Bengali film SOS Kolkata, the shooting of which took place in August 2020.
Jain said that November 5 last year, Nusrat left his flat along with her personal belongings. She shifted to her Ballygunge flat ‘and thereafter we never stayed together as husband and wife’.
Jain said he filed a civil suit March 8 against Nusrat for annulment of their marriage ‘due to certain developments’.