Barely two days after the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha, a case in this regard was registered at the Mumbra police station on Friday. No arrests have been made yet. The triple talaq bill is applicable with retrospective effect from September 19, 2018. The 31-year-old victim's husband, she claimed, pronounced talaq over a phone call and also through WhatsApp messages in November 2018. The cops have booked her husband and her in-laws under sections 498 A (cruelty by husband), 406 (breach of trust), and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and section 4 of The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act.

The complainant, an MBA graduate, got married to Imtiyaz Patel in September 2015. "My husband works as a sales executive in an Abu Dhabi-based company. After our marriage, he demanded '54,000 from me to buy a bike. In October 2015, he left for Abu Dhabi," the woman told the police. "My mother-in-law and sister-in-law wouldn't behave well with me. In October 2016, my husband returned to India and took me to my parents' place. He asked me to stay there for a while and left for Abu Dhabi again," she narrated.