IAS toppers Tina and Athar tie the knot in Kashmir
SRINAGAR DABI, THE FIRST DALIT WOMAN TO TOP THE UPSC EXAM, AND KHAN, A MUSLIM FROM SOUTH KASHMIR, WERE BOTH ALLOCATED THE RAJASTHAN CADRE
: Tina Dabi and Athar Aamir-ul-Shafi Khan who finished first and second, respectively, in the 2015 Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination and are now Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, got married in a private ceremony at a resort in Pahalgam in Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday.
Details of the wedding ceremony are sketchy, but photographs of the couple in their wedding attires are doing the rounds on social media.
People in the know said the wedding took place on Saturday night at the Pahalgam Club in the tourist resort. On Sunday, the newly-married couple and their relatives and friends drove to Khan’s native village in Mattan.
Dabi, 24, the first Dalit woman to top the UPSC examinations, and Khan, 25, a Muslim from restive south Kashmir, were both allocated the Rajasthan cadre.
The couple, after reportedly falling in love during their training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy for Administration in Mussoorie, had announced their wedding plans in November last year.
Dabi had told the press that she fell in love with Khan “at first sight”.
Both Dabi’s parents are in the Indian Engineering Services while Khan is the son of a school teacher from Anantnag district in Kashmir.
While Dabi is a graduate in political science from New Delhi-based Lady Shri Ram College, Khan is a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.