Indian Man ‘divorces wife with text message after she was gang raped’

Sharia law states men can divorce their wives instantly by repeating the

 word “talaq”, or “I divorce you”, to her three times AFP/Getty

An Indian woman has allegedly been divorced by her husband
 by text message after confessing to being gang raped.

The woman, who remains unnamed, said she received a
 message saying “talaq” three times after telling her husband
 about the incident, according to The Daily Mail.

Sharia law states men can divorce their wives instantly by
 repeating the word “talaq”, or “I divorce you”, to her three
 times.

Many Islamic scholars believe the word must be pronounced
 on three separate occasions, spread over three months, and
 accompanied by efforts at reconciliation to constitute a
 divorce.

However, cases of the word being repeated three times in one
 sitting, have been “legally recognized”, according to
 Natana J Deloing-Bas, author of Wahhabi Islam: From
 Revival and Reform to Global Jihad.

An Indian Muslim girl stands with a poster denouncing Talaq on
 International Women's Day in Bombay Getty

The 25-year-old woman claimed she was evicted from her home
 after receiving the message, which ended her five year marriage
 to a Dubai-based construction worker.

Her 70-year-old mother-in-law, who she lived with, has
 supposedly taken custody of her four year old son, according
 to reports.

The woman claims the rape was committed by a group of
 neighbours.  

The woman told The Mail Online: ‘I felt violated. I thought that
 he would stand by my side through this, to help me through the
 pain of it.

But I was wrong. He took the easiest way out like a coward and
 divorced me with text message."The woman told
 The Mail Online:  ‘I felt violated. I thought that he would stand
 by my side through
 this, to help me through the pain of it.

It is understood the woman has since moved back to her
 parent's  home in Meerut, north India.

A government committee, created in 2013 to look into Indian
 women’s status, has recommended the government should
 outlaw triple talaq.

A report by the committee, released last month and cited by
 The Guardian, says the custom “makes wives extremely
 vulnerable and insecure regarding their marital status”.

Women’s rights groups in India have long called for a ban
 on the practise of triple talaq.

Indian studentsparticipate in an anti-rape protest in Hyderabad Getty

In a recent letter to the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi,
 the Indian Muslim women’s welfare movement, Bharatiya
 Muslim Mahila Andolan, claimed the convention denied
 Muslim women their Quranic rights.

They added the ban was necessary to secure equality and
 dignity to Muslim women.

Triple talaq is still recognised in Indian law as the country does
 not have a uniform civil code that applies to all citizens. Rather,
 each religious community has its own laws governing marriage
 and divorce, thus Muslims are allowed to follow Sharia.

Source:- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indian-man-divorces
-wife-with-text-message-after-she-was-gang-raped-a6751826.html