The Delhi Police has registered a first case of triple talaq in the national Capital, after the law was passed in Parliament in July. Police said the man had given triple talaq to his wife in June, but the woman approached police on Friday, following which the 38-year-old man was arrested. However, the accused, Atir Shamim, got bail on Saturday.
Police said Atir, a resident of Azad market and a shopkeeper in Kamla Market in North Delhi, allegedly pronounced triple talaq and informed his wife about the decision on WhatsApp.
According to Nupur Prasad, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), North district, the 29-year-old woman, Raima Yahya, reached the North Delhi’s Bara Hindu Rao police station on Friday and filed a complaint in which she claimed that she was given triple talaq by her husband on WhatsApp. “Acting on her complaint, an FIR was registered under Section 4 of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act 2019,” said the DCP.
Raima, in her police complaint stated that she got married to Atir on November 24, 2011. She alleged that she was harassed for dowry by her husband and his family and on June 28, under a well-planned conspiracy, her husband and his family members came to her room and pressurised Atir to pronounce triple talaq.
“Thereafter, Atir pronounced talaq three times, and they all asked me and my six-year-old son to leave the house,” Raima said in the FIR.
“Police have also arrested the husband of the woman and further investigation is underway,” said the DCP.
According to a relative of Raima, the financial situation of her husband was not well and he was forcing her again and again to get money from her parents. “When she refused, Atir threw Raima and her son out of the house and pronounced triple talaq,” said a relative.
Under section 4 of the new Act - passed by Parliament on July 30 - a Muslim husband who pronounces triple talaq is liable to be punished by imprisonment up to three years and fine.