(The policemen then allegedly went to her home in Gomti Nagar and met her husband. Asked by this newspaper, Amit Kumar Dubey, station house officer of Gomti Nagar, said: “We are not sending police to their houses. But there’s a problem: the Narendra Modi government has passed a law making the pronouncement of the (instant) triple talaq a punishable crime. A bigger protest of over 6,000 women and children has been continuing at Lucknow’s Ghanta Ghar since January 17. Here the police have been accused of trying to spread the misinformation that chanting “azadi” (freedom) is illegal and that anyone mouthing slogans containing the word would be removed forcibly.

Source: The Telegraph January 24, 2020 21:22 UTC