A Delhi-based doctor has been arrested from Bengaluru airport for allegedly giving ‘triple talaq’ to his wife. Police said the man had left his wife and headed to the United Kingdom when the police caught him on Thursday
Instant triple talaq, the practice of instant divorce among Muslims, was made an offence under a law enacted in 2019 to protect Muslim women from this menace.
The Delhi Police said the man has been charged under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 for uttering “talaq, talaq, talaq” in one go.
The man gave instant divorce to his 36-year-old wife on October 13, last year but the matter came to light earlier this month when she lodged a complaint with police in east Delhi’s Kalyanpuri on February 1.
In her complaint, the woman said she met the accused in 2018 and they got married in 2020 and had no children. The man had introduced himself to her as a doctor preparing for a foreign medical graduates’ examination.
She alleged that the accused had shifted to a new place in Delhi a few months after their marriage on the pretext of focusing on preparation for certain exams. On October 13 last year, she discovered that he was living with a another woman.
“After a lot of persuasion from the doctor. We got married on 28/8/2020 at my house in Daryaganj. After getting married, we shifted on rent to Lajpat Nagar. My husband used to work at Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital in October 2020. He had an affair with a doctor around that time only. He used to hit me a lot every time when I asked him about her,” the FIR stated.
