On 31 August, Ishrat Jehan, one of the petitioners against Triple Talaq in the Supreme Court, had lodged a police complaint stating that two of her children had been missing since morning. According to ANI, the children have now been traced.
The officer-in-charge of Golabari Police Station said her husband had taken the children to a relative's place in Bardhaman in the morning of 31 August .
According to the Indian Express, on not being able to find her children, Ishrat asked her in-laws who said her husband had taken them away. She tried to contact her husband but failed, following which she went to the Golabari police station to lodge a complaint.
“My two children have gone missing. I have lodged a complaint with the police. I want my children back,” Jehan had said.
Ishrat is a mother of four and her children had been taken away to where her in-laws lived in Bihar after her husband gave her Triple Talaq on the phone. Earlier this month, however, two of her children had been sent to live with her.
“Just about a month back, two of my children, elder daughter Shayestha (13) and son Zaid (7), came to me. But, since morning, they are missing. Earlier they had called and said they cannot live there since their stepmother ill-treats them. I miss them and want them back,” Indian Express reported.
A five-judge bench, headed by the then Chief Justice of India JS Khehar, ruled that instant Triple Talaq is unconstitutional and made the practise illegal. Ishrat Jehan was one of the few Muslim women who fought tooth and nail to win the case.
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