Mumbai: On Wednesday, a 37-year-old dietician approached Nagpada police and lodged a complaint against her husband under sections of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 and 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) of the Indian Penal Code. The incident dates back to November 2018.
The husband, Anwar Ali Sayyed, 39, is yet to be arrested. The wife has said her husband had given her instant talaq in November 2018.
The woman has told police she got married in 2005 and went to live with her husband in Ahmednagar. On learning he was unemployed, she returned to Mumbai and started living in her parental home. She started working as a dietician with a private firm. Her husband later came to Mumbai and tried his hand at several businesses, but without any success.
Sayyed then allegedly began asking for money from his wife and this was a cause of constant fights between them. In 2009, the woman delivered twin girls. A few years later, Sayyed took the twins to Ahmednagar.
However, the woman brought one of the children to Mumbai. In November 2018, the couple had another fight over Sayyed’s lack of a job when he gave instant talaq to his wife.
A resident of Mumbra in Thane had filed the first case in Maharashtra against her husband for giving her instant divorce.
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