Gujarat: Man utters 'Triple Talaq' to wife via instant messaging app, booked
Ahmedabad, June 21 (IBNS): Police have booked a man in Gujarat's Valsad district after his wife accused him of giving her 'Triple Talaq' over an instant messaging application.
The man's parents have been booked as well, media reports said.
In her complaint, a 26-year-old woman who lives in Sanjan has claimed that her husband parted ways with her by sending a 'talaq nama' on WhatsApp, reported Times Now.
A case was registered in connection with the matter in Umargam police against the man and his parents.
According to Times Now report, Farhim told investigators that her husband works in the shipping industry and is based out of the country, adding that he is due to return sometime in the next couple of months.
What is even more appalling than the accused taking the drastic step via text is the fact that he decided to divorce her after she turned down his request to give their son to his sister who does not children of her own, claimed Farhim, as reported by the national news channel.
The location of the husband is still not known.
Officials with the Umargam police probing the matter said that Kaliya sent the divorced deed on WhatsApp to his mother last month. She took a printout and submitted it at to a local mosque administrator who informed the complainant's father about the same. The woman and her family refused to accept the 'talaq' and approached the police in order to file an official complaint in this regard, reported Times Now.
Parliament: New Triple Talaq bill tabled in Lok Sabha
Meanwhile, a new and fresh bill to ban the practice of instant Triple Talaq among Muslims has been tabled in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the parliament).
The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019, has been listed in the Lok Sabha's agenda for the day.
The new draft law will replace the Ordinance issued in February earlier this year by the BJP-led NDA government just about two months before the general elections.
The Bill, which has been passed in Lok Sabha twice - in 2017 and 2018 - but stalled in the Upper House, seeks to prohibit instant divorce given to Muslim women by pronouncing the word 'Talaq' thrice by their husbands and to provide for matters connected therewith.
With the dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha last month, the previous bill had lapsed as it was pending in the Rajya Sabha.
Under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Ordinance issued earlier this year divorcing through instant Triple Talaq is not only illegal and void but will also attract a jail term of three years for the husband.
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