Tag: Triple Talaq

Jajpur: Police today registered a case against one Imran Khan of Panikoili area in the district following a complaint by a woman who claims to be his legally wedded second wife. Seeking action against her husband, victim Sabina alleged that Imran has married another woman without divorcing her officially. Reportedly, Sabina met Jajpur SP Charan […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea challenging practices of polygamy and “nikah halala”, the process for a woman who wants to remarry her divorced husband, among the Muslim community after its winter break. A bench, headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Surya Kant, […]

Cuttack: Commissionerate Police on Monday arrested a man in Cuttack for allegedly divorcing his wife by pronouncing the word ‘talaq’ thrice, a practice that has been criminalised in the country. The accused has been identified as Barkatullah Khan of Diwan Bazar area in the millennium city. As per Cuttack DCP Akhileswar Singh, it is probably […]

New Delhi: Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani on Friday accused the Congress of preferring vote bank over the rights of the Muslim women in the country. “The Congress got an opportunity to rule in favour of the Muslim sisters in the 1980s. But votes were more important for the party than the […]

Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh): In a shocking incident, a ten-year-old girl was allegedly married to her rapist and then given Triple Talaq by him, police said on Sunday. The incident came to light when a team from the child care helpline visited the girl for counselling at a village in Budhana police station area earlier this […]

Ballia (UP): Uttar Pradesh minister Anand Swarup Shukla on Wednesday said Muslim women will be “freed” from the practice of wearing ‘burqa’, which he described as an evil custom and compared it to the banned triple talaq. This comes a day after the minister wrote to the Ballia district magistrate, complaining that he is facing […]