Husband Says Talaaq Via Speed Post, Wife Moves Supreme Court Against Triple Talaaq System

Posted on 20 May 2016. Tags: against, court, husband, moves, Post, says, speed, Supreme, system, Talaaq, Triple, wife

After 28-year-old Afreen Rehman received a divorce letter from her husband through speed post she has approached the Supreme Court seeking a ban on the triple talaaq system.

 

Afreen is an MBA graduate and works with a private firm. She met Ashar Warsi two years ago through a matrimonial site. The couple got married in 2014. Afreen said that soon her in-laws began harassing her for dowry and she was kicked out of the house. Since then she had been staying at her parents’ house in Jaipur.

 

“I was angry at the sheer injustice. He never once spoke to me about it. He cut off all contacts. When my sister and I went to Indore to meet them, their house was locked,” Afreen told a national tabloid.

 

According to Afreen, Ashar would often rough her up and broke all contacts with her after throwing her out of his house. “He changed his number, unfriended me on Facebook, blocked me on WhatsApp. When my sister and I went to Indore to meet them, their house was locked,” said Afreen.

 

Stunned by how three words written on a piece of paper turned her life upside-down, Afreen has petitioned the Supreme Court challenging the practice of triple talaaq.

 

Afreen is the second Muslim woman after Shayara Bano of Uttarakhand to move the Supreme Court against the controversial triple talaaq system of the Muslim personal law.

 

A committee has been set up by the centre to review the status of women in India. The committee has also recommended a ban on oral, unilateral and triple talaaq.

Daily Bhaskar