Triple Talaq For Being Too Fat: Woman In Madhya Pradesh Tortured And Given Divorce, Man Arrested Under Ordinance

A month after the Central Government passed an ordinance to make triple talaq a punishable offence attracting a jail term of 3 years, Jhabua District of Madhya Pradesh has registered its first case.

The Meghnagar police station of Jhabua has registered the case under Muslim Women Ordinance 2018 (Protection of Rights on Marriage) against Arif Hussain Diwan and mother Hussain Bano on Wednesday. While Arif has been arrested, mother Hussain Bano is absconding.

The police station in-charge Kushalsingh Rawat said that the victim, a native of Sherani Mohalla in Meghnagar was married to Arif, who stays in Dahod in Gujarat, for a decade and had two children, a daughter and son.

Arif had been torturing his wife since the marriage for being obese. Unable to bear the agony, she went to her brother’s house in Meghnagar. On 12 October, Arif along with his mother Hussain Bano came and abused her both verbally and physically. After demanding dowry from her family, he uttered triple talaq.

The women came to the Meghanagar police station and booked the case against Arif and his mother under Sections 323, 498A, 506 and 34 of IPC.

The police station in-charge added that on Wednesday, the statements of the victim and witnesses were also recorded before a court in Petlawad (Jhabua).