Marriage between Nasir, Tamima illegal: PBI

The Police Bureau of Investigation has concluded that the marriage between cricketer Nasir Hossain and air hostess Tamima Sultana Tammi is illegal as she is still now the wife of businessman Rakib Hossain.

It submitted an investigation report in a related case in Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Thursday, drawing the conclusion.

According to the report, Tamima, a cabin crew of Saudi Airlines, did not divorce Rakib and he also did not receive any divorce notice. Instead, she made a counterfeit divorce notice and published it in different media.

So, she is still now the wife of Rakib, and marrying anyone without divorcing her current husband is illegal and it is a punishable offense. In this situation, the marriage between Nasir and Tamima is illegal, the report read.

On August 31, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jashim fixed September 30 to submit a probe report in the lawsuit. 

On February 24, Tamima's first husband Rakib Hassan filed the case accusing her of marrying Nasir without divorcing him. 

In the case statement, he said he and Tamima got married on February 26, 2011, and they have an eight-year-old daughter.

He also accused Nasir of tempting his wife to marry him.

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