Jaipur: A distraught 25-year-old Muslim woman in Jaipur on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging Islam’s ‘triple talaq’ provision after she received her divorce announcement through speed post.
Afreen Rehmangot married two years ago after finding a groom through a matrimonial portal. However, contrary to her expectations, her in-laws allegedly began torturing her mentally for dowry just a few months into her marriage.
The toruture did not stop with the mental harrassment. “They started beating me up and asked me to leave. I came to my maternal home and now I have received speed post announcing divorce. This is completely wrong, unfair and unacceptable. I have filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking its intervention into the matter," she told ANI.
Rehman’s situation, however, is not an isolated incident. Talaq-e-bidat is a practice that many Muslim women want abolsihed. The All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board president Shaista Ambar has been demanding the abolition of triple talaq.
It is a system under which a Muslim man can divorce his his wife by saying 'talaq' more than once any time in the duration between his wife's periods. He can also get divorce instantaneously by repeating the word 'talaq' three times, a practice called unilateral triple-talaq.
The practice has often left Muslim women in India at the receiving end. The central government has also set up a high-level committee to review the status of women in India. According to reports, the government has recommended a ban on the practice of oral, unilateral and triple talaq as well as on polygamy.
