Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said that all the three forms of divorce among the Muslim community – talaq-e-biddat, talaq hasan and talaq ahsan, were "unilateral" and "extra-judicial".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stands with Muslim women on the triple talaq issue as it is a matter of “gender justice, gender equality, gender dignity,” Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.
The government today told the Supreme Court that it will come out with a law to regulate marriage and divorce among Muslims if triple talaq is held invalid and unconstitutional by the court.
“Triple talaq is the ‘worst and most undesirable form’ of dissolution of marriage among Muslims,” the five-judge vacation bench of the Supreme Court hearing petitions challenging the constitutional validity of triple talaq for the second day said
A Supreme Court bench consisting of five judges from five different faiths will start hearing on the constitutional validity of “triple talaq” from today which is also the first day of the Supreme Court’s summer vacation.
Supreme Court's five-judge Constitution bench will commence hearing from tomorrow on a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of triple talaq, nikah halala and polygamy practices among Muslims.
Urging them to take the lead in initiating reform in this regard, PM Modi said that ‘democracy’s greatest strength is harmony and amity’.
Coming down hard on the controversial issue of triple talaq, the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday said that the draconian practice is unlawful as Muslim marriages are contracts that cannot be unilaterally cancelled by the husband alone
The decision was taken in a meeting of the 'Turk' group, which has about 50,000 members living in 50 villages of this Sambhal district.
Shah is on a two-day visit to Marxist-ruled Tripura to strengthen the party base in the state.
A man’s plan to marry for the fourth time hit a hurdle after his previous three wives divorced through triple talaq approached police, accusing him of making their obscene MMS and raping a minor.
Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), a body floated by Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), is reportedly mulling over adopting minor children of Muslim women who are victims of “triple talaq”.
The Supreme Court today allowed senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid to assist it as amicus curiae in hearing a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of ‘triple talaq’, ‘nikah halala’ and polygamy among Muslims.
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said Modi, BJP and its ideological mentor, the RSS, were trying to use triple talaq for electoral gains.
Maurya’s this remark prompted the All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board (AIMWPLB) to demand his resignation.
Speaking at an event here, the PM also made and appeal to the Muslim community to come forward to protect women’s rights.
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