BAREILLY: After the Centre recently submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court for abolishing the practice, another case has been reported from Bareilly where a man gave triple talaq to his wife when she rebuked him for stealing a mobile.Shabnam Bi, 35, who is illiterate, rebuked her 40-year-old husband Azad, a rickshaw-puller, for stealing the mobile. The man, who was drunk, allegedly assaulted her and her children when they came to her rescue. He then gave triple talaq to his wife and threw his family out of the house. The woman told TOI that she has accepted her divorce but wants police to send him to jail because he was a threat to her children and herself.A man named Jameel Ahmad had given a police complaint on Sunday that Azad stole his mobile phone from his shop. Police came to Azad's house in Hafizganj area to question him. "After they left, I got angry at my husband for stealing the mobile. He then started physically assaulting me. When my eldest son, Mustaq, intervened, Azad assaulted him too. He abused my three other kids. He then gave me triple talaq and threw us out of the house," said Shabnam.She added that Azad then sat at the gate with a weapon and threatened them to kill them if they tried to enter the house again."Azad has been beating Shabnam ever since they got married 20 years ago. As we have received numerous calls in the past for help, we thought the matter would be settled. However, we received another call from the brother of Azad who informed us that Azad has divorced Shabnam," said Mohammed Arif, Shabnam's cousin.The woman's family consulted many clerics to know if the divorce is valid as Azad was drunk at the time. "The clerics told us that if Azad remembers in the morning that he gave talaq to his wife in the night, the divorce is legal. Azad told us he remembered giving talaq," added Arif.Shabnam gave a police complaint. "We arrested Azad under section 151 of CrPC for disrupting the peace on Monday. We produced him in the court of sub-divisional magistrate on Tuesday and he was released after he gave a written submission that he will not physically assault Shabnam and the children. We have nothing to do with her divorce as it is their personal matter," said Girish Raj, station officer, Hafizganj police station."I have accepted that I am divorced. As he has left me, I have no other option. However, Azad has issued several life threats to me and children; I am scared about our safety. He can attack us again. Police should keep him in jail," the woman said.Mufti Mohammed Saleem Noori, spokesperson of Dargah Aala Hazrat said, "They are legally divorced under Shariat, but since he used to beat his wife, this is wrong. If he does not change his behaviour, locals should boycott him."