Tag Archives: Triple Talaq

Farahnaaz Khan, a woman living in Mumbai, has lodged a domestic violence case against her husband who had allegedly given her triple talaq over WhatsApp over demand for dowry. Saying that Muslim women must understand how the bill is in their favour, Khan said she will file a petition against …

Does Islam treat women fairly when it comes to marriage and divorce? Islam does unequivocally, but men do not. The Supreme Court on August 22, 2017, in theory, brought relief to harried Muslim women by declaring instant triple talaq invalid through a 3-2 split verdict. Justice Kurian Joseph, whose vote …

More than 30,000 burkha-clad women took to the streets on Tuesday protesting against the Muslim Women Protection of Rights on Marriage Bill, which criminalises instant triple talaq. They first held a demonstration against triple talaq bill at the Muslim Institute Hall off Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road in central Kolkata and later walked …

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), which failed to convince the Supreme Court against banning instant triple talaq last year, is all set to make it binding on Muslim men to commit in the nikahnama (Islamic marriage contract) that they will not use the practice. Over a month after the Lok Sabha passed the …

In 1960, India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, told Taya Zinkin of The Guardian, “I could do something for Hindu women. I couldn’t do so for Muslim women because the community did not agree.” In reality, Nehru faced a lot of opposition from the Hindu community too, yet he went ahead …

Lok Sabha has passed the Triple Talaq Bill. I have always been an opponent of Triple Talaq and consider it totally un-Islamic. But the truth is that the Triple Talaq Bill does not ban but validates it making it valid but punishable under law with 3 years imprisonment. The argument …

Immediately after the Indian government announced a bill criminalising “triple talaq”, the proposal has been mired in controversy. Banning the practice of a husband divorcing his wife by uttering “talaq” three times within Muslim communities has been under discussion in India for years now. The practice has rendered hundreds of …

After the Narendra Modi-led government’s decision to make triple talaq illegal, the Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal (MSM) has demanded that the proposed legislation be extended to cover all forms of divorce granted by the Muslim community under its personal laws. Activists of the Mandal founded by social reformer Hamid Dalwai, met …

If the earlier demand for the declaration of triple talaq as unconstitutional and or un-Quranic had united progressive Muslim women and men, the Union government’s declared intent to pass a law in the winter session of Parliament criminalising the practice has created a schism among them. Nothing illustrates this better …