The talk of the town in the Bangladeshi community is that a married woman concealed the fact of her marriage to enter a beauty contest meant only for young “innocents.”

But that is just the tip of a story that has shaken moral sensibilities in the community.

For one thing Bobby Roy won.

When asked over the phone about the alleged concealment of her marital status, Bobby said that none of the organizers put the question to her, and that she was too busy to answer more questions as she was boarding a flight for London, U.K.

In an earlier interview, she said that she was married in Bangladesh when she had been too young to know what it was all about. When asked if she was still married in New York, she said that she is not. "But I did live together with a person for some days," she said.

It turns out that she was married to a man in Queens, Rumi Ahmed Rajan. She converted to Islam for that ceremony. The imam of Sunnyside mosque, who presided over the marriage, remembered that she set the mehr for $50,000. In a tradition of Muslim law, the mehr is a prenuptial amount that the husband is obligated to pay his wife in the event of divorce. The imam remembered that the amount seemed beyond the resources of Rajan, but Bobby said that they’ll cross that bridge when they get to it.

Rumi Ahmed Rajan said that their marriage was no secret and and that they were a happy couple until she left him.

According to a reliable source, the couple married for love but her Hindu family was against the match for religious reasons. Shayamol Kumar Roy, her father, twice complained to the Immigration and Naturalization Service office that Rumi was a man of bad character and intended to marry his daughter because she was a green card holder.

In Bangladesh, Bobby was married to Kumar Sagar of Khulna on April 19, 1996 at 17 Mirjapur Road of Khulna City, according to an affidavit.

The facts and imagined motivations of Bobby and the beauty contest organizers are mesmerising the Bangladeshi community in New York. People are wondering how she won the beauty contest when she was judged sixth among the six finalists. Though the contest organizers are claiming they will sue Bobby for misleading them, Lifton, one of the organizers said that the contestants had to submit to a medical examination!

Fatima Shahab, the MC for the beauty contest said that the entire event was in keeping with the wishes of the organizers. The judges’ decision went to the organizers who then handed her the name of the winner.