Woman married to Pakistani national, 3 others held in Assam over suspicious financial transactions

Tezpur (Assam), Four persons, including a woman reportedly married to a Pakistani national, have been arrested in Assam's Sonitpur district, a top police officer said on Friday.

The accused were arrested based on a complaint of suspicious financial transactions, he said.

Sonitpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Barun Purkayastha said the investigation began after unusually large foreign deposits were detected in the bank account of a family from Borjhar village in Tezpur.


"Based on a complaint submitted by the bank, we launched a probe that has led to several startling discoveries," he said.

The prime accused, a woman who returned from Dubai on December 5, was arrested along with three others in connection with the financial transactions.

While the three others were sent to judicial custody on the same day, the woman was remanded in police custody by a local court.

"During interrogation, the woman said she was in a relationship with a Pakistani man and they got married on February 25. Records of her foreign travels have been found during investigation," the SSP said.

Police seized 44 ATM cards, 17 bank passbooks, cheque books and other documents from the four accused in connection with the suspected irregular financial transactions, he added.

Another police official said the woman had come into contact with the Pakistani national through Facebook, after which she travelled to Dubai. The prime accused was later remanded in judicial custody by the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Tezpur, on Thursday.