By PTI
PALANPUR: A forty five-year-old Class I authorities worker was sentenced to a 12 months in jail by a courtroom in Palanpur of Gujarat’s Bankaskantha district on Wednesday for making an attempt to divorce his spouse of seven years via “triple talaq”.
This is probably the primary conviction in a triple talaq case in Gujarat, public prosecutor Sanjay Joshi stated.
The courtroom of further senior civil choose G S Darji sentenced Sarfarazkhan Bihari, a deputy engineer, to a 12 months in jail and imposed a fantastic of Rs 5,000 on him.
The accused man’s aggrieved spouse, Shehnazbanu, had in September 2019 approached Palanpur (west) police station and an FIR was registered below related sections of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 and the Indian Penal Code.
The 2019 Act declares the moment divorce granted by pronouncement of “talaq” thrice as void and unlawful and gives for imprisonment of as much as three years and a fantastic to the husband.
Bihari acquired married to the complainant in June 2012, they usually have been blessed with a daughter.
Later, Bihari was transferred to Dantiwada city as a deputy engineer within the authorities’s Sipu pipeline venture and there, he fell in love with a Hindu co-worker, the complainant’s lawyer Govind Makwana stated.
When Bihari’s household came upon concerning the matter, the complainant’s spouse father met his father they usually determined to shift the couple to a separate rented home in Palanpur metropolis, he stated.
While they have been dwelling there, the mom and sister of the accused visited them, following which, they quarrelled and the accused acquired offended, beat up his spouse and pronounced “talaq” thrice to divorce her, Makwana stated.
An FIR was registered on this regard below sections 498 (A) (harassment of a lady), 323 (voluntarily inflicting damage), amongst others of IPC, and sections 3 and 4 of Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, he stated.
The courtroom sentenced Bihari to a 12 months in jail below the 2019 Act, a 12 months in jail below part 498 (A) of IPC and 6 months below part 323 of the IPC, with the sentences working concurrently.
The public prosecutor, on behalf of the plaintiff, made oral arguments in search of that an instance be set within the society via punishment of the accused.
The choose took into consideration the written arguments of the petitioner’s lawyer and oral arguments of the general public prosecutor, and sentenced Bihari to at least one 12 months in jail, the complainant’s lawyer stated.
