After TOI report, Jaitley tweets and asks ‘Does the Bareilly ‘nikah halala’ not shock your conscience?’

Agra | Saturday | 9th February, 2019

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Taking on to Twitter, the senior BJP leader and prominent lawyer also slammed Congress for its promise to scrap the Triple Talaq Bill. Jaitley also wrote at length about the Bareilly incident in his blog titled: “Does the Bareilly ‘nikah halala’ not shock your conscience?”, and shared its link on his Twitter account.He wrote, “A recent case from Bareilly has shocked my conscience. Nation-builders look at the next Century,” said Jaitley while ending his blog.The revised bill to make instant triple talaq a punishable offence was passed in the Lok Sabha last year. The Muslim woman in Bareilly has been forced into animal existence.”Under nikah-halala, a man cannot remarry his former wife unless she weds another man. The matter came to light on Tuesday during the hearing of a maintenance case in a local court..