Rajasthan woman divorced via speed post

Jaipur: Afreen Rehman, 25, recently received something shocking in the mail and not just via regular mail but through ‘Speed Post’. It was a divorce, or to be precise, ‘triple talaq’. The young woman on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court against Islam’s ‘triple talaq’ provision.

Talaq-e-bidat is a practice by which a Muslim man can divorce his wife by saying ‘talaq’ more than once any time in the duration between his wife's periods. He can also get divorce instantaneously by repeating the word ‘talaq’ three times, a practice called unilateral triple-talaq.

“I got married in 2014 through a matrimonial portal. After two to three months, my in-laws started mentally harassing me by demanding dowry,” Rehman said.

“Later, they started beating me up and asked me to leave. I came to my maternal home and now I have received speed post announcing divorce. This is completely wrong, unfair and unacceptable. I have filed a petition in the SC seeking its intervention into the matter,” she added.