MALAPPURAM: A man has been booked for allegedly pronouncing talaq over the phone to divorce his wife, as well as on charges of assaulting her and demanding dowry, police said on Saturday.
The Kalpakanchery police registered a case against Shahul Hameed, a native of Edakkulam.
The case was filed after his wife, a 21-year-old woman from Naduvattam in the district, approached the police, alleging that she had been subjected to physical and mental torture by her husband over demands for more dowry.
