Chorus against triple talaq grows louder
MORE AND MORE YOUNG, EDUCATED MUSLIM WOMEN ARE DEFYING PERSONAL LAW AND WANT BAN ON UNILATERAL DIVORCE
NEW DELHI: In April, Shayara Bano grabbed headlines when she went to the Supreme Court seeking a ban on triple talaq (instantaneous unilateral divorce) given by her husband through a letter.
The 35-year-old from Uttarakhand also challenged the practice of polygamy and nikah halala (where a woman given triple talaq has to marry another man and consummate the marriage if she wants to get back with her divorced husband).
The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act,
1937 allows a man to divorce his wife by uttering divorce or talaq thrice in one sitting.
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>> REPORT ON PAGE 22 writing talaq three times. India is one of the few countries that still recognises oral and triple talaq. In recent years, this has taken an altogether new turn with men giving triple talaq over phone, by SMS, email, on Skype, WhatsApp and Facebook.
Like Shayara Bano, Afreen Rehman, 28, received such a letter from her husband of two years, Asgar Wasi.
“I was given no reason,”
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Rehman filed a plea in the Supreme Court in May to declare the divorce null and void. “My petition has been accepted. I have also demanded that Muslim personal law be codified to prevent its misinterpretation.”
These aren’t isolated cases. More and more young, educated Muslim women, mostly in their mid-20s and 30s, are defying personal law.
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