Chhindwara (MP), a 26-year-old woman from Chhindwara district in Madhya Pradesh claimed that her husband gave her "triple talaq" after being angry with her for supporting the BJP, among other reasons, police said.

The woman's husband, however, has denied her allegations and accused her of having extramarital affairs.

The woman, in her police complaint filed on Sunday, said that she was married almost eight years ago.

Her relations were normal for some time, but later her husband, her mother-in-law and her supposedly sisters-in-law started mocking her and beating her over some issue or another, the man told reporters on Monday. Kotwali police station in-charge Umesh Golhani.

The woman claimed she was kicked out of the house about a year and a half ago and she stayed with her husband in a rented room, she said.

Citing the complaint, Golhani said the woman supported a political party and voted for it, which further angered her husband, after which she gave him "triple talaq".

Based on the woman's complaint, the police have registered a case against her husband, her mother-in-law and her four sisters-in-law under the provisions of the Dowry Prohibition Act, the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights in marriage) and the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act and Indian law. Penal Code, she said.

The victim's statement has been recorded and additional legal action is being taken, she said.

The woman told reporters here on Monday that her husband had sent the talaq notice, accusing her of lacking character and having illicit relations, which she claimed were false and baseless.

"I responded to the notice through my lawyer. Later I supported the BJP and voted for it. When my husband, his mother and my sisters got this information, he gave me triple talaq. His relatives told him to leave them or give me the triple talaq," he alleged.

The woman's husband, however, alleged that she had affairs that caused the "disturbance" and that he had given her several opportunities (for reconciliation) for the sake of her son's future.

This is not a question of 'instant triple talaq' or supporting any political party as there were no elections in 2022, she said while talking to reporters on Monday.

The man said he gave talaq to his wife for the first time on March 30, 2022, and twice later in October and November 2023, in accordance with Muslim law.

He claimed that the woman had been threatening him, defaming her image, ruining the lives of her relatives for a long time and leveling such accusations to hide his affairs.

The man also claimed that no one in her family harassed her as she was living separately from him since the last three years.

The talaq issue had already been raised before a court and all family members were free to support any political party, he said.

The man also said his sisters were staying separately in another city, but their names were "falsely" included in the case.