Aishbagh police have nabbed two accused who were involved in sexually assaulting a 22-year-old woman who was given triple talaq by her husband after seven months after marriage and later she was confined for four days and raped repeatedly by her friend’s acquainted tantrik on the pretext of 'Nikah Halala' when her husband wished to remarry her in Aishbagh area.
The first triple talaq case in Bhopal under the new Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019. The accused in the case were arrested. In the complaint victim stated that her husband and a tantrik have harassed and sexually assaulted her.
CSP Jahangirabad Abdul Aleem Khan said the victim married Aftab Ansari of Bismillah Colony in Aisghbagh on April 29 this year. The victim approached police after her husband gave her triple talaq after the couple had a fight. The husband later wished to remarry her.
The main accused Anwar Khan told the couple that if they wished to remarry, the woman will have to first marry someone else, consummate the marriage and then remarry her first husband as per the custom of Nikah Halala and the tantrik raped her with her husband's consent.
The tantrik took the woman to a flat and raped her in the name of 'halala', the police official said. When the woman returned to her husband's house, he refused to take her in, following which she lodged a complaint against him as well as the tantrik, said police. .
Police registered a case under Section 343 and 376 of the IPC was registered against her husband and tantrik. They were arrested and produced in the court and sent to judicial custody for 14 days.