After birth of a girl child, UP man threatens wife with triple talaq

The case has come to light at a time when India is debating over the issues of banning triple talaq and polygamy practiced by the Muslim community.

Lucknow, April 22: According to reports, a Muslim man from Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, wants to divorce his wife because she gave birth to a girl child recently. The man threatened his wife with triple talaq (the Muslim divorce practice--where a man can divorce his wife by uttering the word talaq three times) after their child was born, reported ANI.

The woman approached the police and lodged a complaint against her husband. In her complaint, she also stated that her husband wanted to marry another woman.

The case has come to light at a time when India is debating over the issues of banning triple talaq and polygamy practiced by the Muslim community. While a large number of Muslim women want a ban on triple talaq and polygamy to end injustices meted out to them, the clerics don't want any interference in their personal laws by the Centre.

Last year, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government opposed in the Supreme Court the practice of triple talaq, 'nikah halala' and polygamy among Muslims and favoured a relook on these practices on grounds of gender equality and secularism.

Recently, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed his views against the practice of triple talaq too. Adityanath said that those silent on the issue were as "guilty" as the ones practising it.

In recent times, several bizarre cases of triple talaq have come to light. Many men divorced their wives over phone and several of them just sent postcards to their wives with triple talaq written on it. Recently, a woman from UP was attacked with acid by her in-laws after her husband gave her triple talaq over phone.

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