By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
A Panchayat in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district fined a man of Rs 2 lakh and asked him to return the ‘meher’ for giving Talaq to his wife.
Raees Ahmed, a 45-year-old farmer and resident of Moosapur village of Sambhal had married Rehana Begum (34) three years ago. Around 12 days back, Raees divorced Rehena by saying ‘talaq’ three times in one go over a matter of simple family dispute. Following this, Rehana returned to her maternal home but a panchayat on the same issue was called by her parents.
Sambhal is dominated by members of Turq community of Muslims, and the panchayat which was also dominated by 52 members of the same community fined Raees for the same. Moreover, panchayat has also asked Raees to return the ‘meher’ amount of Rs 60,000 to Rehana’s parents which he took at the time of niqah.
Asrar Ahmed headed the panchayat and told reporters that panchayat was held on Sunday when Rehana’s brother made a request for the same some four days ago.
According to media reports, Raees was not able to justify him move to divorce Rehana by triple talaq practice. “We have been requesting villagers to stay away from the practice,” said Ahmed to Indian Express.
This case comes few weeks after the All India Muslim Personal Law Board told Supreme Court that any Muslim practicing triple talaq would be subjected to social boycott. Supreme Court was also told that AIMPLB has issued guidelines for married couple about triple talaq and has asked them to stay away from it.