Man Gives Wife 'Triple Talaq' For Praising Cops' Action In Sambhal

The woman has filed a police complaint against her husband, Ejazul, for divorcing her.

She was watching a video on Sambhal violence in Uttar Pradesh, where protests sparked by a survey into whether a centuries-old mosque was built on a Hindu temple had killed four people - when her husband asked her not to and then, as she claims, divorced her by uttering the word "talaq" three times. She had praised the police action.

The word talaq means divorce in Arabic.

The controversial practice of triple talaq that allows Muslim men to divorce their wives instantly by saying "talaq" thrice was banned by the Supreme Court in 2017. The top court called it "unconstitutional". In 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government also approved a bill outlawing the centuries-old right of a Muslim man to instantly divorce his wife.