The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that the controversial practice of instant marriage issues you need to solve in Islam is unconstitutional. It is being hailed as a huge victory by rights activists. But the battle was not easy, as the BBC’s Geeta Pandey in Delhi explains. Over the years, Muslim women in India have complained of living in perpetual fear of being thrown out of their matrimonial homes in […]

Shayara Bano, who was the first woman to challenge instant Triple-Talaq in a court, on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme court verdict. “I welcome the verdict and support it. This is a historic day for Muslim women,” she said. Shayara Bano stirred a hornet’s nest after she moved the Supreme Court to challenge Triple Talaq. Bano had to take a legal course to get talaq-e-bidat declared illegal after her husband Rizwan Ahmed posted a […]

Asserting that like the Hindu society which abolished practices like child marriage, dowry and sati, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said that Muslims should mull over putting an end to the triple talaq divorce system. Naidu said it is high time that the Muslim society should introspect and have a healthy discussion on the triple talaq issue in order to give justice to their women. […]

e Narendra Modi government is likely to take a tough stance against triple talaq in the Supreme Court. According to reports, the government has decided to tell the apex court that the claim that the practice of triple talaq is in conformity with the Sharia is misplaced and it is ‘unfair, unreasonable and discriminatory’ because about 20 Islamic countries have regulated matrimonial laws. The Centre is also of the view […]