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The '''Nikah for Cash''' is a sex scandal involving Islamic [[Maulvi]]s and scholars in India and the United Kingdom which was exposed through [[India Today]] and [[BBC]] investigations and found that Maulvis were sexually and financially exploiting divorced Muslim women through the [[Nikah halala]] custom.<ref name="India Today"/><ref name="BBC"/><br />
Nikah halala is a custom where a [[Divorce in Islam|divorced]] Muslim woman is required to marry another man, consummate the marriage and then get divorced from him, if she wishes to remarry her ex-husband.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Singh |first1=Vatsala |title=What Does Quran Say About Nikah Halala? Will Banning it Help? |url=https://www.thequint.com/voices/women/so-what-does-the-quran-say-about-nikah-halala-triple-talaq-polygamy |website=The Quint |date=24 July 2018 |publisher=Bloomberg LP |access-date=20 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/nikah-halala-a-proxy-scandal-120072900048_1.html|title = Nikah Halala: A proxy scandal|newspaper = Business Standard India|date = 29 July 2020|last1 = Mohan|first1 = Archis}}</ref><br />
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== India ==<br />
In August 2017, the India Today News Group's investigative team found many Islamic scholars offering themselves at a price for one-night stands with divorced Muslim women desperate to restore their broken marriages, and charging anywhere between Rs 20,000 and Rs 1.5 lakh for it. <br />
The business of one-night grooms was widespread in the investigated areas of [[Bulandshahr]], [[Delhi]] and [[Moradabad]]. The maulvis investigated were found to have done nikah halala several times earlier.<br />
In some cases, the nikah halala was performed even without a formal marriage.<ref name="India Today">{{cite news |last= Pathak|first= Sushant|date=16 August 2017|title=Exposed: How maulvis take money for one-night stand with divorced women trying to save marriage|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/nikah-halala-islamic-scholars-one-night-stand-divorced-muslim-women-marriage-1029887-2017-08-16|newspaper=India Today}}</ref><br />
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== United Kingdom ==<br />
In April 2017, an undercover BBC investigation found that a number of online services are charging divorced Muslim women thousands of pounds to take part in halala Islamic marriages.<br />
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An undercover reporter found halala services being advertised on [[Facebook]] and the charge for the halala service was £2,500.<br />
interacted with a man advertising halala services on Facebook. The man told the reporter, who was posing as a divorced Muslim woman, that he would marry her and have sex with her to "complete" the halala marriage, in exchange of 2,500 pounds.<br />
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The BBC investigations revealed that there were specially designated rooms in mosques for nikah halala sex, and the imam would even allow other men to sleep with the women.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news |last= Ahmad|first= Athar|date=5 April 2017|title=The women who sleep with a stranger to save their marriage|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39480846|newspaper=BBC}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://quran.com/2/230 Quranic verse on Nikah halala]<br />
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