Benezir Sahil recalls the devastating phase she went through during her divorce, how she overcame the challenges post it, and why choosing to live her life her way is what matters to her most now.
Five years ago, in 2017 triple talaq petition was filed. In 2019, the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill passed criminalising the instant triple talaq or Talaq-e-Biddah. Triple Talaq allowed men to divorce women in one go without prior intimation.
A man has been booked in Gujarat for giving his wife triple talaq through Instagram after the two faced marital discord.
The wife had reportedly refused to recognise the “Triple Talaq” the man gave and did not budge from her matrimonial home. – Man Frames Wife
Muslim Women Rights Day would be observed across the nation on August 1 to celebrate the enactment of law prohibiting triple talaq.
Shayara Bano became the first Muslim woman to challenge the triple-talaq practice. The anti-triple talaq crusader, who recently joined the BJP, has been given minister of state status by the Uttarakhand govt.
The triple talaq practice was deemed by the Supreme Court to be “void and illegal”, and was first banned in 2017, then criminalised in 2019.
As regards the practice of oral triple talaq also, much before the legislature enacted the law, prohibiting the same and making it an offence punishable with imprisonment, the judiciary put lot of restrictions on the said practice.
“Women are not fully respected yet for the work they do and the struggle they fight in their lives. There is need for a big change in the outlook towards women of our country,” Sumitra Chouhan to SheThePeople.
“I question their feminism,” one told me, saying that liberal feminists “have achieved nothing for Muslim women” in decades.
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