Man gives the wife triple talaq via WhatsApp, case registered.

The Thane police in Maharashtra booked a 28-year-old man and his parents after he allegedly divorced his wife by sending a ‘ triple talaq ‘ message on her mobile phone, said an official on Thursday.

The 25-year-old woman, in her complaint lodged last week, said she got married to a man from Kalyan town here on May 18, 2014, and that they have a four-year-old son, Bhoiwada police station’s inspector Kalyan Karpe said.

She alleged her in-laws were constantly harassing her and her husband demanded Rs 5 lakh from her sometime back and threw her out of the house, he said.

The woman, currently staying here at the place of a relative in Bhiwandi city, further alleged that she received a ‘ triple talaq ‘ message from her husband on March 12 this year on WhatsApp. He declined to speak to her when she tried to call him, the official said.

Based on the woman’s complaint, the police registered a case on Wednesday against her husband Nadeem Shaikh and in-laws under IPC Sections 498-A (cruelty), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with an intent to provoke breach of peace), and the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, he added.