New Delhi: A household court docket in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur has directed the estranged husband of Atiya Sabri, one in every of the six petitioners in the Supreme Court towards immediate triple talaq, to present her month-to-month upkeep of Rs 21,000 in alimony.
In a giant victory for Atiya, the court docket additionally ordered her husband, Wajid Ali, to pay her an arrear of Rs 13.4 lakh as the case had been filed 5 years in the past. The duo has two daughters.
Atiya had alleged that her husband and in-laws pressured her out of the home after she gave delivery to her second daughter in 2015. She had additionally accused them of demanding Rs 20 lakh in dowry.
Atiya had lodged a grievance in Saharanpur court docket on November 24, 2015, after Ali gave her triple talaq by writing the phrase ‘talaq’ thrice in a letter on November 2, 2015.
Expressing elation at the verdict, Atiya instructed a number one publication that she needs more and more women who’ve been going through harassment to come ahead. She added she feels blessed that God selected her be it for “the fight for the triple ‘talaq’ law or winning this alimony case”.
Meanwhile, Atiya had additionally petitioned the Supreme Court which outlawed immediate triple talaq and described it as “unconstitutional” in August 2017.
