I agree, also.... I wish the best to the married couple, especially from my heart to Monila. Glad Pabitra (shows how Monila thinks of the baby - he is pure, no matter what) will have a "normal" loving home from now on.
And hope that, from now on, forgetting the past, the marriage will be based on TRUST, and care and love of course! Sincerely, --ABS. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chan Mahanta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Saurav Pathak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "AssamNet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 10:19 AM Subject: Re: high court mushahary > Wow, I am impressed! Not only was it a solomonic solution, but laced with a > fine sense of humor too. Hey, these AGP types aren't the duffers as we > might have thought :-). > > cm > > > > > > At 10:18 AM -0400 8/31/02, Saurav Pathak wrote: > >Rape battle ends in marriage > >- Former Assam minister weds accuser, names son High Court > > > >MONIDEEPA CHOUDHURI AND SUSHANTA TALUKDAR > > > >Mushahary with son High Court. Picture by SH Patgiri > >Guwahati, Aug. 30: Former Assam minister Rajendra Mushahary has > >accepted Monila Brahma as his ?wife?, 18 months after the teenaged > >girl gave birth to a child and accused him of rape and impregnation. > > > >The former AGP minister solemnised his wedding with Monila before > >the marriage officer, Kamrup, under the Special Marriage Act on June > >19. Mushahary categorically said: ?I am the father of Monila?s > >child.? > > > >The DNA test that Mushahary took to clear his name last year, had > >confirmed that he was the father of the child born to Monila on > >October 23, 2000, at the Kokrajhar civil hospital. > > > >Mushahary, a widower, finally appeared to be a happy family man. He > >said: ?After our marriage, we have renamed our son ?High Court?. All > >that happened in the court has finally culminated in myself, Monila > >and High Court becoming one happy family.? > > > >Now in his mid-forties, Mushahary was minister of state for the > >welfare of plain tribes and backward classes in the Prafulla Kumar > >Mahanta government. He was a powerful Asom Gana Parishad functionary > >till Monila levelled the rape charge and the party was forced to > >suspend him. > > > >Mushahary said he would have to wait for some more time before he > >gets a ?clean chit? from the court. > > > >?I appeared in the chief judicial magistrate?s court in Kokrajhar on > >Tuesday and since the case will be referred to the sessions court, I > >am waiting for its summons,? he said. When the case comes up for > >hearing, Monila will ?take back? her charge. > > > >After being released on bail, Mushahary had moved to a nondescript > >location where he was tracked down by The Telegraph today. Monila > >came to Mushahary?s residence on June 5 and they were married on > >June 19. > > > >Maintaining that he was ?done in? by his political adversaries, > >Mushahary claimed he had decided to tie the knot with Monila soon > >after the 2001 May Assembly elections. ?Unfortunately, my > >brothers-in-law jumped the gun in order to derive some benefits by > >framing me in a false case,? Mushahary claimed. > > > >Mushahary said he harboured no ill will towards those who engineered > >the smear campaign, which resulted in his suspension. > > > >?The All-Bodo Students? Union and the All-Bodo Women?s Welfare > >Federation merely acted upon the feedback that they were provided by > >Monila?s family. I do not blame them at all. I am happy now and > >intend to bring up my son well. I will also make sure that he gets a > >good education,? he said. > > > >The case had also drawn the attention of the National Human Rights > >Commission that rapped former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta > >for allowing the rape accused to continue as a minister. > > > >When Monila claimed that she was carrying Mushahary?s child as a > >sequel to multiple incidents of rape, she was asked to undergo > >medical tests. Subsequent confirmation of the supposed victim?s > >pregnancy failed to perturb Mushahary, who threw an open challenge > >to all and sundry to prove him guilty. > > > >According to the FIR lodged by Monila?s mother, Mushahary raped the > >girl on two occasions, once in February 27, 2000 and again a month > >later. > > > >The girl?s statement was recorded by a magistrate, a day after her > >mother lodged the FIR at the Kokrajhar police station. > > > >The DNA report had said ?Rajendra Mushahary is the biological father > >of the disputed child Pabitra (now named High Court).? > > > >The DNA test report was despatched to the forensic science > >laboratory here in June last year and forwarded to the Kokrajhar > >police, which was handling the case. The DNA profiling was carried > >out under chief scientist at the CDFD, G.V. Rao. > > > >Samples for the DNA test were collected on June 7, 2001 from the > >alleged rape victim, the child and Mushahary after months of legal > >wrangling and claims and counter-claims. > > > >The police had to seek the court?s permission to go in for the DNA > >test as the investigation had come to a ?dead end? despite claims by > >Gossaigaon police of having gathered ?enough circumstantial > >evidence?. > > > >The rape charge is also said to have played a role in Mushahary?s > >defeat in the last Assembly elections. > > > >According to the victim?s claims she was raped first on February 27, > >2000 and then again in March that year at a hotel in Warisa on the > >Assam-Bengal border. However, an FIR was lodged against the minister > >at the Gossaigaon police station only on September 4, six months > >after the ?crime? was committed. >
