Press Trust of India Posted online: Friday, July 08, 2005 at 1852 hours IST
Guwahati, July 8: After the religious edict in the Imrana rape case, a 19-year old woman in Nagaon district of Assam has been directed by a local jamait to divorce her husband after she complained that she was raped by her father-in-law.
The 19-year-old woman now living with her parents, filed an FIR at the Dhing police station yesterday, Nagaon district superintendent of police K K Sarma told PTI today.
According to Sarma, the woman alleged that she was raped on May 25 by her 50-year-old father-in-law, Moinuddin when she was alone at her home in South Jeraimai village in Dhing police.
The family, who are Bangladeshi immigrants, did not inform the police about the rape, but went to local religious elders who gave the decree that she divorce her husband, he said.
