Soon after she was raped, a local panchayat (council of elders) asked her to leave her husband Nur Ilahi and declared their marriage null and void.
[3] Her father-in-law Ali Muhammed raped Imrana Noor Elahi, mother of five children and resident of Charthawal town of Muzaffarnagar district in western state of Uttar Pradesh allegedly on June 4.
Here it is the law of the land which prevails in cases of granting relief to a rape victim and punishing the offender" Naseem Khan stated.
At one point, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav also endorsed the view of the Darul Uloom that she can no longer live with her husband.
[11] Police registered a case under sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code against Mohammed Ali and arrested him.