A Muslim woman in India has knocked at the door of India’s highest court after she was divorced through speed post.
25-year-old Afreen Rehman has moved the supreme court of India to seek a change in the law to stop ‘triple-talaq’- a practice of divorce by Muslim men who simply utter the word ‘Talaq’ (divorce) thrice to divorce their wives.
Afreen got married in 2014 after finding a match through a matrimonial website. However, a few months into her marriage, her in-laws started harassing her with demands for dowry.
“Later they even started beating me and in September they asked me to leave their house,” she told ANI.
"I went back to my parents' home and now I received a letter via speed post announcing a divorce," she added.
In her petition before the supreme court, Afreen has sought a ban on ‘Triple-Talaq”.
One is ‘triple-talaq’, and the other issue is the way it is happening. ‘Talaq’ is being sent through speed post, people are doing it through Skype, it’s being done through telegram. It’s utterly wrong.
“One is ‘triple-talaq’, and the other issue is the way it is happening. ‘Talaq’ is being sent through speed post, people are doing it through Skype, it’s being done through telegram. It’s utterly wrong,” Afreen told Times Now.
“This is so illogical. I was sent a ‘talaq’ through speed-post. I don’t accept this divorce and that’s why I have approached the supreme court.”
In March this year, the Madras High Court came to the rescue of a Muslim woman by staying the order of a lower court which upheld the "triple talaq" sent by her husband through telegram in 2009 .
In November 2015, a fatwa by Dar-ul-Uloom in Deoband had ruled that talaq uttered thrice by a Muslim man on a mobile phone will be considered valid even if his wife is unable to hear it all the three times due to network and other problems.
Following Afreen's court petition, Twitterati had a few comments to make on #SpeedPostTalaq
