Hyderabad: City residents Mehreen Noor and Syeda Hina Fathima have moved a petition in the Hyderabad High Court against the triple talaq pronounced by their husbands over Whatsapp from the US. The petitioners said that the Supreme Court in Shamim Ara v State of UP and the High Courts of Allahabad, Bombay and Madras had ruled that pronouncing talaq unilaterally without counselling and without giving reasons was bad in law and in violation of the Constitution.
The petitioners alleged that they were subjected to mental and physical torture by their husbands and in-laws. They said that the Sharia did not accept the form of divorce their husbands had adopted. Urging the court to direct the police to give them and their parents protection, the petitioners asked the court to order the authorities to frame guidelines to protect married Muslim women from the illegal method of ‘triple talaq’.
