Lucknow, December 28: The Uttar Pradesh government would grant an annual compensatory pension of Rs 6,000 to the victims of triple talaq from next year, said reports citing top sources on Saturday. The report comes nearly three months after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met a delegation comprising of victims of triple talaq, and assured that his government would be taking the required measures to financially support them.

Since triple talaq was outlawed by the Supreme Court last year, Uttar Pradesh has been at the forefront of recording cases against Muslim men who divorced their wives using the banned practice. A total of 273 cases were registered between September 2018 to the same month this year. India Joins Pakistan, Saudi Arabia in Outlawing Triple Talaq; Check List of Countries Where Instant Divorce is Banned.

The police department has been instructed to invoke the clauses under Muslim Women Act, 2019 which mandates a maximum penalty of three-year imprisonment along with fine against a person who divorces his wife through talaq-e-bidat or the thrice utterance of the word talaq in a single-sitting.

Update by ANI

On September 25, Yogi Adityanath had met around 300 women from across the state who claimed to be victims of triple talaq. The meeting was arranged under Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram (PMJVK). The Chief Minister's Office had then claimed that he had heard the plight of those women, and assured social welfare measures to improve their condition.

"Educated women should be absorbed in government jobs as per their qualifications while arrangements should also be made for providing them shelter and education under various schemes. These women should be covered under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana or under the Chief Minister Arogya Scheme," the UP CM had said.

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