After facing๊ an acid attack on Thursday at Bulandshehar in Uttar Pradesh, a petitioner in the nilkah halala and triple talaq case filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking protection, which the court on Friday has agreed to hear on September 17.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwikar and D Y Chandrachud considered the plea of Shabnam Ra💛ni, who was attacked allegedly by her brother-in-law and has been hospitalised. She has also sought better health care.
The court asked advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, counsel for Rani, to submit a copy of the 🧔petition to the Centre and the🍷 Uttar Pradesh government.
Numerous petitions have been filed in the apex court challenging the prevalent practices of nikah halala and polygamy amo❀ng Muslims saying it was violative of fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
While polygamy allows a Muslim man to have four wives, 'nikah halala' deals with the process in which a Muslim woman, who wants to re-marry her husband after divorce, has to first marry another person and get a divorce from the🅠 second person after the consummation.
In her plea against nikah halala and polygamy, Rani had alleged that her husband divorced giving h♛er triple🧸 talaq and forced to perform nikah hala with her brother-in-law.
PTI
