Yasmeen Khalid, the wife of Aligarh Muslim University professor Khalid Bin Yusuf Khan, has claimed that she was given instant “triple talaq” on WhatsApp recently.
She also threatened to end her life in front of the vice-chancellor's house along with her kids if "justice is not done" to her.
This came just two and a half months after the Supreme Court struck down instant triple talaq as "unconstitutional" and suspended it for six months.
Yasmeen told The Times of India that Khan, a professor and chairman at the department of Sanskrit in AMU, gave her the talaq first on WhatsApp and then as a text message.
"He (Khan) turned me out of the house and I have been running from pillar to post to get justice. But no one has helped me so far. However, with the help of police I did manage to get access to my house on Friday evening," she told the newspaper.
She also threatened to commit suicide along with her three children in front of V-C Tariq Mansoor's house if she doesn't get justice by December 11.
In his defence, Khan said Yasmeen had hidden various facts from him before their marriage and “she was not even a graduate, unlike what she had claimed”.
Yasmeen, however, has claimed that she is MA and BEd from AMU.
In August, the apex court banned the controversial Islamic practice of instant divorce, in a landmark verdict for gender justice that will stop Muslim men calling off a marriage on a whim.
In a split verdict, three of the five all-male judges on the case said the practice of saying “talaq”, or divorce, three times in one go – sometimes even over email and WhatsApp – violated women’s right to equality and was not integral to Islam.
