AHMEDABAD: A 40-year-old woman from the Raikhad area of the city on Tuesday filed a complaint with Gaekwad Haveli police, alleging that her husband sent her triple talaq notice through money order.
The woman, a teacher at an Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation school, in her FIR said that she married a man from Jamalpur in June 2007.
Soon after their wedding, her husband bought a house in Astodia, taking a housing loan in her name. She said that when they were living there, he would fight with her and suspected that she was having an affair with another man.
She said her husband defrauded several people of money and fled to Dubai, after which she had to pay the debts.
He came to India in July 2019 and sold the house for Rs 72 lakh. Using that money, he bought a house for his sister, she said. She alleged that whenever she opposed him, he beat her up. After that, he went to stay at a rented house in Gomtipur and had first sent a notice of instant talaq on April 16, 2020, though registered AD.
The complainant’s mother signed the acknowledgement slip and he thus managed to take send the talaq (divorce) notice for the first time, she alleged in the FIR.
On July 30, 2020, he sent two separate money orders of Rs 5,000 each, but as she knew that he had sent the money order with the Iddat (waiting period) note, she refused to accept it, the FIR said. She alleged that her husband continued to threaten her for an instant divorce since then. She approached Gaekwad Haveli police and filed a DV complaint along with charges under the Muslim Women Act against him.
