Kolkata: Even as the ban on triple talaq by Supreme Court is being lauded by the radical lot, it is definitely not a war won for the petitioner Ishrat Jahan. It was just a battle won and the verdict has dragged her into another battle with her own family members, in-laws, neighbourhood in Howrah’s Pilkhana and the incorrigible and insensitive social media trolls.

Ishrath, a mother of four and divorced over phone by her husband in Dubai through the infamous triple talaq set an ideal by transcending her poverty, religious and gender restraints by filing a petition with the apex court against the misogynistic practice in concurrence with four other like-minded women. However, she along with her advocate Nazia Ilahi Khan are facing the wrath of that section of society that just refuses to grow.

Ostracism and character assassination to the extent of being abused as a “dirty woman, anti-Islam and anti-men” have become the order of her day. Some fanatical Twitterati are also taking the opportunity to attack Islam under the garb of the judgement and advising her religious conversion.

A resident of Howrah’s Pilkhana near Dobson Road since 2004 in a house purchased from dowry by her husband. With her brother-in-law and his family also living in the same house she is feeling unsafe at home following the verdict. More than fighting these people she wishes to concentrate on her children’s future.

However, she has not given up and has boldly unveiled herself to show up to the world as well as face it.

Her next fight is to get her children deprived of education since the past four years due to poverty, back to school. She wishes to file a case seeking maintenance and expenses for her children’s education. Well! The judgement by SC is indeed landmark but the society yet seems defiant to justice.