“Finally, justice has been done to Muslim women,” says Atiya Sabri, a victim of ‘triple talaq’ and one of the petitioners of the case in the Supreme Court in which the judgment came on Tuesday.
Atiya, who now lives with her parents in Saharanpur, had filed a petition in the Supreme Court on January 8, 2017, after falling victim of the instant divorce.
“A am very happy with the decision of the Supreme court, declaring triple talaq unconstitutional,” said Atiya. She appealed to one and all to accept this decision with open arms and hope that the law made by the government in this regard will be in favour of the Muslim women.
The Supreme Court in its verdict on the triple talaq on Tuesday had not only called it unconstitutional but also banned it for next six months, instructing the Union government to introduce a law in this regard during this period.
Atiya was one of the petitioners on whose appeal the decision has come. She has returned to Saharanpur from Delhi and there celebrations at her house, said her brother Rizwan.
Atiya is concerned about her two daughters, Shazia (4) and Sana (3), as she is totally dependent on her parents. Already 30, things are not easy for her to become self dependent.
She was married to Vazid of Hardwar in 2012. Two years after the wedding, her in-laws allegedly started torturing her for dowry. They were allegedly not happy over the birth of two daughters. On December 12, 2015, she lodged a dowry case at the the Kotwali Mandi in Saharanpur. Next month, her husband wrote ‘talaq, talaq, talaq’ on a piece of paper and sent it to her parents house.
She filed a petition with the SC in January 2017 and on February 15 the court issued notices to secretaries of Child Welfare Ministry, Law Ministry, Minority Affairs Ministry, Darul Uloom Deoband and Atiya’s husband Vazid Ali.
Thereafter on March 21 this year, police arrested Vazid and his father Saeed and sent them to jail.