West Bengal: Hours after Ishrat Jahan files police complaint, children returned by father

In what appears to be a case of horrible miscommunication, two children of Ishrat Jahan, one of the petitioners in the triple talaq case, were enjoying the day with their father when she filed a missing persons complaint with the police in Howrah.

Ishrat Jahan had earlier on Thursday approached the police to file a complaint that two of her children had gone missing earlier in the day.

As per ANI reports, Ishrat approached the Golabari Police Station in Howrah to register complaint. “Both my children have gone missing. I saw them last at 11:15 am. My brother and his wife are behind it,” she alleged in the complaint.

The children were returned by their father later in the evening. Police said that they had called Jahan’s husband and baffled by all the news of missing children on media, he returned the kids to Golabari Police Station.

Ishrat had challenged the Constitutional validity of triple talaq to end a marriage. The mother of four young children was divorced by her Dubai-based husband over the telephone. She then moved the Supreme Court against the practice of triple talaq (talaq-e-bidat) under the Muslim Personal Law.

In her petition, Ishrat Jahan sought a declaration from the apex court that Section 2 of the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937 was unconstitutional, as it violated fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 14 (equality), 15 (non-discrimination), 21 (life) and 25 (religion) of the Constitution.

"My husband and his relatives are constantly attempting to drive me out of my matrimonial home," Ishrat had said.

With Agency Inputs