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BAREILLY: A 24-year-old woman approached Sambhal police on Wednesday and lodged a complaint against her husband and his family members for raping and torturing her. The woman claimed that she was given instant talaq by three men on four occasions in as many months and was raped multiple times in the name nikah halala . The woman, who has a four-year-old daughter and a ten-month- old son, has been staying at her parents’ house for the last one month.

“I was married to Mohammed Dawood in March 2014. For the first couple of years, things were normal. In 2016, he asked me to bring Rs 50,000. My father passed away before I got married, but even then my mother somehow managed to meet my husband’s demand. Earlier this year, he again asked me to bring money, but I flatly refused,” the woman told TOI over the phone.

She added, “The entire family started torturing me. After a heated argument on April 2, my husband gave me instant talaq. I was devastated to hear the three dreaded words, but did not know that the worst was yet to come. Within three days, I was forced to undergo nikah halala with my husband’s younger brother, Mohammed Zakaria . I was blindfolded, tied to the cot and raped by him. After two days of the incident, he gave me triple talaq and my husband remarried me.”

In July, the woman experienced the same horror. “The only difference was that this time I was forced to undergo halala with my husband’s brother-in-law, Mohammed Mudassir. I couldn’t take it anymore and moved to my parents’ house,” she said.

Meanwhile, SHO of Nakhasa police station, inspector Sarvendra Kumar Sharma , said, “An FIR under IPC sections 498A (dowry), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 376 (rape), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) has been registered against the woman’s husband and his family members. Since it is a case of family dispute, the accused will be arrested after the investigation.”

