In Six Points: Why Is Security Beefed Up For Triple Talaq Crusader Nida Khan?

A local cleric had issued a fatwa against a Nida Kahn who had allegedly taken up issues like triple talaq and Nikah Halala.

NEW DELHI: Days after a local cleric has issued a fatwa against a Muslim woman Nida Khan, who had allegedly taken up issues like triple talaq and Nikah Halala, the District Magistrate has decided to give her police protection and tighten her security. Nida runs an organisation to help Muslim women get justice and she has faced several threats in past for their attempts to fight for women rights.

1. Nida Khan was married to Usman Raza Khan alias Anzu Miyan of Ala Hazrat family here in 2015 but was given talaq in 2016.


2. Since then, she has been fighting for rights of Muslim women.


3. In the fatwa, it was said that No medicines will be provided if she falls ill. If she dies, no one is allowed to offer 'namaz' on her 'janaza' (funeral procession). She cannot be buried in kabristan (graveyard) after her death.


4. To this Khan said those issuing fatwa "should go to Pakistan". "India is a democratic country. No one can ostracise me from Islam. Only Allah can decide who is guilty," she added.


5. The minority panel said that authorities should initiate criminal proceedings against persons responsible for the issuance of such a fatwa and security and protection of Nida Khan should also be tightened.


6. The two-member minority panel also said that in a country like India fatwa is of no significance and law is at the top.

The Supreme Court has set aside instant triple talaq or talaq-e-biddat as a "manifestly arbitrary" practice. The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017, which makes triple talaq a punishable offence, follows the apex court judgment on August 22 last year in Shayara Bano vs. Union of India case. The apex court has also referred to a five-judge constitution bench a batch of petitions challenging the practices of polygamy, nikah halala, nikah mutah and nikah misyar, allowed by Muslim personal law, and sought the Centre's response.

The bill against instant triple talaq has already been passed in the Lower House but remains pending in the Rajya Sabha amid opposition reservations over it.