Tamil Nadu: High Court gives interim stay on triple talaq case

Nazeema who was married to M Mydeen Batcha, a railway employee from Rajapalayam, was issued a triple talaq by her husband in 2010. She had then approached the Madurai bench and filed a writ appeal. Now, the Madurai Bench of Madras HC has issued an interim stay on a lower court order which accepted the triple talaq divorce.

According to a report in the Deccan Chronicle, Naeema stated in her writ appeal that during the wedding in 2007, her father had given 30 sovereigns of gold jewellery and Rs 40,000 cash as dowry to the husband's family. She has alleged that her in-laws later started demanding more dowry and mentally tortured her. She then approached the All Women Police station, Bodi in 2009 and filed a complaint. 

Her husband had asked her to withdraw the complaint with the promise that their married life would be peaceful. However, in April 2010, Batcha gave her a triple talaq to end their marriage. 

The daily adds that Nazeema approached the lower court in Theni to declare the triple talaq as null and void and the judgement was in her favour. But Batcha then filed an appeal in the additional district court Theni at Periyakulam in 2015. Post the trial, the additional district and session judge, Theni accepted Batcha's triple talaq as valid.

Justice R Mahadevan of the Madurai Bench of Madras HC has now passed an interim order against the lower court judgement, adds the report. The judge has directed Batcha to file a counter within three weeks.