LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Dumka, June 17: It has been three years since the practice of Triple Talaq has been outlawed in the country but for Hameeda Khatun getting justice for being abandoned by her husband three times, is still a far cry.
Mother of two, Hameeda (35) had to get laid with two other men after solemnising Nikah Halala so as to get back to her husband by following the Sharia law.
“For the sake of my children, I followed the Sharia practice of Nikah Halala with my brother-in-law and a stranger subsequently on such behest of my husband ending our marriage by triple Talaq every time for dowry,” Hameeda stated narrating her rues who, along with her parents, visited the Pathargama police station on Thursday to get an update of her complaint lodged a month back.
Resident of Podaiyahat in Godda district, Hameeda was married to Sarfaraz in 2014 and gave birth to two children. However, her husband started demanding dowry of one lakh rupee after she gave birth to two babies during the initial five years of their marriage.
“My husband uttered triple Talaq for the first time when my parents failed to pay the dowry amount of rupee one lakh. However, after much persuasion, he agreed to remarry me but on the condition of performing Nikah Halala with my brother in-law whom I lived with for three months and thirty days being his wife as prescribed in the Sharia law,” Hameeda told reporters.
The reunion, however, did not last longer as her husband abandoned her again as he made a new demand of Rs 2 lakh as dowry which too could not be fulfilled and she had to undergo Nikah Halala with a stranger this time for two months.
“This time I have told my parents to prefer burying me than insisting me to undergo the same humiliation for the third time to get back to my husband,” Hameeda stated while being disappointed over the ‘indifference’ of the police to arrest her husband.
“The complaint lodged by Hameeda Khatun has formally been lodged few days ago and it is being investigated and supervised by the sub divisional police officer (SDPO),” the officer in-charge of Pathargama police station Balram Rawat said.
