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.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear pleas against Triple Talaq act. It has issued a notice to the Centre on the same, and therefore has agreed to re-examine the validity of the law that bans Triple Talaq, a practise of saying the word Talaq thrice to divorce your wife. This is only practised among […]
Two petitions, one filed by a religious organisation from Kerala in the Apex court, and another by a lawyer in the Delhi High Court, have challenged criminalisation of Triple Talaq on grounds that it violates the rights of Muslim husbands.
Ramya Yahya alleged in her complaint that Shamin pronounced talaq thrice and divorced her along with sending her a ‘Fatwa’ on WhatsApp on June 23 this year.
Sub-Inspector Yogesh Patil of Mumbra police said, “We have the screenshot of their November 2018 WhatsApp chat in which he has typed ‘talaq’ thrice. We shall use that as evidence.”
The Bill advocates the cause of the women who are victims of instant divorce in India. Now that the bill is passed, it bans the practice of instant Triple Talaq in Islam.
