New Delhi: As per the media reports a woman named Ishrat Jahan who is believed to be the petitioner in the triple talaq case, on Saturday joined the BJP at its Howrah office in West Bengal.
“I will work in the party’s women wing,” she was quoted saying by the media.
Ishrat, whose husband purportedly divorced her over the phone from Dubai in 2014 by saying ‘talaq’ thrice, was among the five petitioners who had filed a petition with the Supreme Court of India (SCI) in the triple talaq case. The practice was eventually struck down by the SCI on August 22 last year.
Last month, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2017, which criminalises triple talaq and prescribes punishment for violators, notes Times of India (ToI).