Exclusive: BJP leader Ishrat Jahan seeks police protection after threat to life in West Bengal

Kolkata BJP member Ishrat Jahan, a petitioner in the triple talaq case in the Supreme Court, has filed a police complaint alleging she was threatened and verbally abused for attending a Hanuman Chalisa recital in a hijab.

In her complaint at Golabari police station in Howrah, Ishrat Jahan accused her brother-in-law and landlord of threatening and abusing her for taking part in the religious function. She told police that on Wednesday after she was on her way back home after picking up her son from school when around 100 people surrounded her and objected to her presence at the Hindu religious event in a hijab.

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