Aligarh man gives ‘triple talaq’, complaint lodged

In the first case of triple talaq in Aligarh ever since the Supreme Court banned the practice last month, a resident of Loco Colony in Civil Lines allegedly gave his wife instant divorce over the phone on Friday last.

“My husband left me and my infant daughter at my maternal home a day after Bakrid and then he did not come back. I tried to contact him on phone several times but he did not respond. On Friday, he divorced me by saying divorce thrice over the phone,” alleged Rehana, 23, while talking to Hindustan Times.

She further said she lodged a complaint against her husband Zahid, 27, with the SSP on Tuesday. The SSP sent the complaint to the mediation centre, Rehana added. When local BJP leaders came to know about it, they also accompanied the victim woman to the concerned police station.

“The divorce given by the man hailing from Badarbagh near Shamshad Market in Civil Lines falls under criminal case category. Action should be taken in this regard,” BJP Civil Lines mandal secretary Dipak Agarwal said.

In a landmark ruling on August 22, the Supreme Court banned the controversial Islamic practice as arbitrary and unconstitutional. Triple talaq, also known as talaq-e-biddat (instant divorce) is a form of Islamic divorce which had been used by Muslims in India.

It allowed any Muslim man to legally divorce his wife by saying the word talaq three times in oral, written or more recently electronic form.PRADEEP

My husband left me and my daughter at my maternal home a day after Bakrid . On Friday, he divorced me by saying divorce thrice over the phone. REHANA, the victim