No joke:
New Delhi: It’s a quickie way to divorce that is catching up saying ‘talaq’ through SMS or email. Former Haryana deputy chief minister Chander Mohan alias Chand Mohammed is the latest to use digital means to say talaq to his estranged second wife Fiza. But Muslim scholars have termed it “unacceptable” and say there is no concept of instant divorce in Islam. **Chand Mohammed sent a terse “talaq, talaq, talaq” mobile SMS to Fiza from London and also called her up to repeat the message Friday night. “I got an SMS from Chand on my mobile phone on Friday in which he had written ‘talaq’ three times. Immediately after that, I got a call from him and he reiterated that he has given talaq to me,” **Fiza told mediapersons in Chandigarh. According to a study ‘Marriage and divorce amongst Muslim women in India’, conducted by Sabiha Hussain of the Centre for Dalit and Minorities at Jamia Millia Islamia, at least 15 such divorces were pronounced via SMS, email and phone in 2008.
Source: Talaq via SMS, email un-Islamic