Assam’s Envoy to Cuba is Under Fire for Having 2 Wives and Illegal Annulment to First Marriage

Indian ambassador to Cuba has two wives, each with a daughter, as he tried to annul his first Christian marriage through tribal customary practices which is not recognized by the law
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New Delhi: Indian ambassador to Cuba, Thongkomang Armstrong Changsan who hails from Assam's Dima Hasao, has two wives, each with a daughter, as he tried to annul his first Christian marriage through tribal customary practices which is not recognized by the law 


The story starts when in 1994, he married Neikhol Changsan in a church under the Christian Marriage Act. Years later, he got a customary divorce from her through the Songpijan village elders in Assam’s Dima Hasao district and married another woman, a move that the Guwahati High Court declared invalid in 2022. 

The Supreme Court during a recent hearing, upheld the court’s judgement, stating that a Christian marriage solemnized in Church cannot be annulled by customary means. 

The ambassedor had stated that he had been paying a monthly maintenance of Rs. 20,000 to Neikhol and given a house to her in Delhi. Whereas, neikhol argues that she has taken care of her daughter alone without any help from him. She has also stated that he manipulatively estranged her daughter from her, who now resides in Bangalore. 

The Supreme Court shows no mercy to the man and is on the side of the wife, as she has faced moral and social distress for all these years, and urges him to pay an ad hoc payment of Rs. 3 lakh and also make arrangements of her travel and accommodation for Bangalore to organize a possible reconciliation with the daughter. 

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