Triple Talaq or illicit relationship: Doubts persist after man returns to wife

Even after the Supreme Court declared that the instant triple talaq is unconstitutional, it will take a while for the society to shun the practice since this has existed for a decade now.

A 23-year-old woman from Juhapura in Ahmedabad was pronounced instant triple talaq by her husband in a fit of rage after she failed to get him a matchbox. However, the woman came back to her husband hours later after he apologised to her realising the mistake. But the woman's neighbours started saying that the woman is living in illicit relationship.

The couple has been married and has a six-year-old son. According to Haadiya (name change), she was shocked to hear when her husband uttered those words to her. Haadiya said,'' When Sadiq (name change) and wanted to smoke late night, he asked her for a match box since she was sleeping she told him to find it. When Sadiq didn't find the match box he began to hit her and pronounced triple talaq.

But this didn't end here, what happened next was even worse. The neighbours who woke up after hearing the noise came out said that since Haadiya has been divorced she has to get back to her parents. They removed bangles and even nose ring and asked to sit in 'iddat' (customary mourning period where women who are divorced are kept in isolation for a certain period of time) for which she refused.

After hearing about what transpired between the couple, Nooraj Dewan, a women's rights activist went to their home and made them understand. After which Sadiq asked her to forgive her. Haadiya agreed and started living with her husband. But the couple fear that this may affect the child in coming days.

The real fight for Haadiya is not with her husband but with the neighbours who think that the instant triple talaq is still valid for them.

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