BAREILLY: After 26 years of marriage, a man, who works as a labourer, gave ‘talaq’ to his wife on a piece of paper and threw her out of the house. The woman showed enough courage on Tuesday and tore the piece of

paper at a counselling centre in Moradabad where the couple went for ‘mediation’, saying that “this won’t work anymore”.

The woman who belongs to Rampur had reportedly complained to Moradabad SP that her husband would often harass her for dowry. On July 1, the husband wrote talaq ‘thrice’ on a piece of paper and handed it over to her. The SP then asked the couple to visit the Nari Utthan Kendra counsellor.

On Tuesday, Nari Utthan Kendra counsellor and the centre’s in-charge Sandhya Rawat had summoned the couple for a session. When the counsellor was listening to the two, the woman tore the ‘talaq’ paper in front of her husband. The husband then agreed to take her back.

“The woman is 52 year-old while her husband is 55. During the counselling session, the woman showed courage and made it clear to her husband that she was not going to leave him, and there was no use of writing ‘talaq’ on a piece of paper. We shot the entire scene in our mobile phone when she was tearing the ‘talaq’ paper,” Rawat told TOI.

Rawat further said that it was an emotional moment. “This video [of tearing the paper with talaq written on it] will certainly help. We’ll use it to convince other quarrelling couples,” she said.

“The woman was married to him for 26 years. The locality comes under Katghar police station limits. They are poor people and the man is a labourer. The couple has three children. The eldest son is 19 year-old. She had lodged a complaint around 11 years ago after being fed

of her husband for harassing her over dowry. The matter was resolved after families from both sides reached out and took prompt initiatives,” counsellor Ritu Narang said.