Bizarre: Wife pleads for further Study, Husband gives her Triple Talaq

According to the Police, a man in Rajasthan’s Barmer district gave his wife of 6 years triple talaq after she insisted on pursuing her further studies. The 21-year-old woman is graduated & had requested her husband for higher study, on which, her husband gave her triple talaq.

The Women Police Station in Barmer has lodged the case against the man, confirmed Lata Begad, the station house officer.

SHO said that victim is a resident of Barmer’s Gagriya village & lodged a case at the women police station that she got married to Murad Khan, who works as a junior engineer at Fulera in Jaipur.

In her complaint, the woman claimed that soon after marriage, her in-laws started harassing her for dowry. They forced her to leave her study but she anyhow completed the graduation.

She alleged that her husband & family members were against her pursuing her further study & denied it when she made the request to them.

The victim informed the police that in Dec 2019, her husband given her triple talaq in presence of her brother. She said that after that she returned back to her father’s house with her brother & started living there.

She informed the police that in March 2020, her husband sent her a written talaq but believing that matter would be sorted out at social level, she avoided police action but when her husband denied to accept her, she approached the Police.

SHO Lata Begad said on basis of victim’s complaint, the case has been lodged under section 498A, 323, 354 of the Indian Penal Code & section 3/4 of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019.