Lucknow, Sep 3: A woman from Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad district has alleged that her father-in-law raped her in the name of nikah halala after she got a divorce from her husband. Following the woman's complaint, a case was registered against her husband, father-in-law, her husband's uncle and two 'unidentified' clerics.

Under nikah halala, if a Muslim woman after being divorced by her husband three times at different instances wants to go back to him, then she has to marry another person and then divorce the second husband to get re-married to her first husband. The woman got married to a resident of Turtipura on December 7, 2014. Ravi Shankar Prasad's Retort to Rahul Gandhi's Demand on Women Reservation: Support Anti-Triple Talaq & Nikah Halala Laws Too.

According to Bareilly Zone additional director general of police Prem Prakash, the woman was thrown out of her in-laws' house on December 25, 2015. The woman alleged harassment by in-laws, and a case was registered on January 3, 2016. However, on December 24, 2016, both the sides reached an agreement, and she went back to her in-laws' house, Prakash said.

In her complaint, the woman said her husband, his father, his uncle and two clerics claimed that as she was out of the house, they had a divorce and she will have to undergo nikah halala. Later, she was locked in a room with her father-in-law who raped her. In the morning, the two were divorced. Soon after, her husband sexually assaulted her, and she became pregnant, the police said.

The woman gave birth to a boy on October 6, 2017. The victim has also alleged that she had submitted an application in this regard with the district magistrate, following which she and her family were receiving death threats from her husband and a few clerics.

The ADGP said, "A case of gang-rape has been registered against the woman's husband, father-in-law, uncle-in-law and two unknown clerics." "The case was registered on Saturday (September 1), and investigations are underway," the senior police officer said. (With PTI inputs)

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