A cleric at a seminary in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly has issued a fatwa against a victim of "triple talaq", who now runs a non-profit organisation to help others like her. The cleric’s fatwa shockingly ordered: ‘No medicines, no prayers, no grave for Nida Khan’. He also explained that Nida was issued the fatwa because she slammed the practices of Islam.

"No medicines will be provided if she falls ill. If she dies, no one is allowed to offer 'namaz' on her 'janaza' (funeral procession),” read the decree.

Issued by Shahar Imam Mufti Khurshid Alam, the diktat further says: “She cannot be buried in the kabristan (graveyard) after her death." People, who will assist or back her, will face similar punishment, added the cleric.

The cleric added that no Muslim is permitted to maintain contact with Nida Khan until she “publicly apologises and retracts her anti-Islam stand”.

Reacting to the fatwa, Nida Khan said she was ostracised for taking on patriarchs. She further underlined the need to have a new law against triple talaq.

Nida Khan got married to Usman Raza Khan (Anzu Miyan) in 2015. However, the couple got divorced in 2016.

Nida challenged the "triple talaq" in a civil court and won the battle. She had that her husband used to assault her so brutally that she had to face an abortion.

The lady did not give in and instead became a campaigner against practices such as Nikah Halala.

Nikah Halala is a practice in which a woman has to marry and sleep with another man for one night in order to marry her husband again after a divorce.