Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has extended support to Assam resident Indira Deuri, alias Jenny, in her decades-old paternity dispute involving former Uttarakhand minister Harak Singh Rawat, describing the alleged treatment she faced as “extremely wrong and reprehensible”.
In a post on X, Sarma said, “Yesterday I met Jenny, a resident of Assam. What a man named Harak Singh Rawat from Uttarakhand did to her is extremely wrong and reprehensible. No one should have to suffer the kind of cruelty she endured.”
“I stand firmly with her in this fight for justice,” he said.
Meanwhile, speaking to the media in Guwahati today, Jenny demanded a fresh DNA test to establish the paternity of her son and to secure his legal right to bear his father’s name. The case, known as the ‘Jenny episode’, dates back to 2003 and has been a political controversy in Uttarakhand.
Jenny gave birth to a child at a government hospital in Dehradun in June 2003 and claimed that Rawat was the father. At the time, then Chief Minister N.D. Tiwari ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry. The DNA test conducted by the CBI indicated that the child’s DNA did not match Rawat was subsequently cleared of the allegation.
Assam CM supports Jenny in Uttarakhand Cong leader Harak Singh Rawat paternity row
