India pacer Mohammad Shami’s wife Hasin Jahan on Wednesday, 7 March, accused the cricketer of having extramarital affairs and of assaulting her. Jahan, who had posted screenshots of Shami's alleged WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger conversations with multiple women on her Facebook account, said:
I’ve done everything he wanted me to do. He has assaulted me and is a big flirt. I’m not going to divorce him till my last breath. I’ve all the evidences and will soon drag him to the court.
Shami took to Twitter to deny the allegations.
However, Jahan said that his claims were false, and that she had enough evidence of his flirty chats with several women.
Jahan, who had also uploaded photos and phone numbers of the women, alleged that 27-year-old Shami and members of his family had even tried to kill her.
"Everyone in their family used to torture me. His mother and brother used to abuse me. The tortures continued till 2-3 am in the morning. They even wanted to kill me", she alleged.
"He even abused me and started beating me. All this continued after he returned from South Africa. He has been doing this for quite some time now and now I have had enough", she said.
"I gave him enough time (to rectify himself) and tried to calm myself down but instead of accepting his own mistakes, he used to vent his anger on me and even threaten me, asking to keep mum for my own goodwill", she added.
Shami is currently playing in the Deodhar Trophy for India A. The 27-year-old was a vital cog in India's historic victory in Johannesburg, returning with a five-wicket haul.
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