Face of Kathua protest booked for beating up wife for dowry
Talib has been booked under provisions of Ranbir Penal Code including domestic violence, demanding dowry, threatening his wife and attempting to murder her.
Talib Hussain, a social activist and advocate who led the agitation against the rapists in the Kathua gang rape-cum-murder has been accused of domestic violence.
According to news reports, an FIR was registered after preliminary enquiry by the police into the complaint of Talib’s wife Nusrat Begum, 30. The directions for a probe came on Thursday from chief Judicial Magistrate Shabnam Sheikh.
Talib married Nusrat in 2015 and the couple have two children. Neighbours have told the police that Nusrat along with her two daughters had been living in her father’s home since her husband allegedly physically assaulted her for dowry.
Talib has been booked under provisions of Ranbir Penal Code including domestic violence, demanding dowry, threatening his wife and attempting to murder her.
Talib along with Deepika Singh Rajawat had become the face of those standing up for the Kathua rape-murder victim, an eight-year-old child from a minority nomadic community.