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Supreme Court suspends triple talaq for 6 months, asks Parliament to make a law

Supreme Court suspends triple talaq for 6 months, asks Parliament to make a law

3The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Triple Talaq verdict and asked the Parliament to bring in the legislation.
New Delhi: In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended the triple talaq verdict for the next six months with immediate effect. The top court also asked the Parliament to bring in the new law to govern the issue. Three out of five judges hearing the case have declared triple talaq as ‘arbitary’ and ‘unconstitutional’.
A five-judge bench comprising of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice S Abdul Nazeer – all from different religious communities including Sikh, Christian, Parsi, Hindu and Muslim – heard seven pleas, including five separate petitions, filed by Muslim women challenging the prevalent practice of triple talaq in the community.
“Triple Talaq is a violation to equlity and the dignity of a woman,”said MoniKa Arora, Supreme Court advocate told Zee News.
The judges had reserved its verdict on May 18 after a six-day marathon hearing during the summer vacation.
The Chief Justice of India (CJI) J S Khehar, while reading the judgement, said that “talaq-e-biddat is not in violation of articles 14,15, 21 and 25 of the Constitution.”
He further said the talaq-e-biddat is an integral part of Sunni community, which is being practiced for the last 1000 years.
During the hearing, the top court observed that the practice of triple talaq was the “worst” and “not a desirable” form of dissolution of marriage among Muslims, even though there were schools of thought which called it “legal”.
The Centre had told the bench that it introduce a new law to regulate the instant divorce practice among Muslims, if triple talaq is held invalid and unconstitutional by the top court.
The government had termed all the three forms of divorce among the Muslim community – talaq-e-biddat, talaq hasan and talaq ahsan, as “unilateral” and “extra-judicial”
As the Centre sought to flag the issue of gender equality of Muslim women vis-a-vis women in other religions and in Islamic countries, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) asked it to bring a law taking recourse to Article 25 (2)(b) of the Constitution that permits enactment of law invoking social reforms.
However, AIMPLB had cautioned the constitution bench that “testing the validity of customs and practices was a slippery slope” and cautioned the bench that “testing the validity of customs and practices was a slippery slope”.
In the course of the hearing, the AIMPLB issued an advisory to telling the qazis to give an option to Muslim women to opt out of instant triple talaq before giving consent for nikah.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), had equated the issue of triple talaq with the belief that Lord Rama was born in Ayodhya and these were matters of faith which cannot be tested on grounds of constitutional morality.

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