Muslim Divorce Law In India

The Assam government has decided to repeal the personal law governing marriages and divorces among Muslims in a big push towards a Uniform Civil Code (ICC).

Less than three weeks after Uttarakhand became the first state in independent India to pass legislation on a Uniform Civil Code, Assam has taken its first step towards a similar law by repealing the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act.

The Kerala High Court has held that a divorced Muslim woman need not be sent to a court of law for recording the talaq if it is otherwise in order as per the personal law.

The rate of divorce among Muslims has "come down by 96 per cent" since triple talaq was made a punishable offence under the law in 2019 and this has benefitted women and children, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan said on Thursday.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan lashed out at the BJP-led government at the Centre over the Triple Talaq law, questioning why the practice of instant divorce among Muslims was "criminalised when divorces happen in all religions".

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Monday said that cases of divorces in the Muslim community have dropped by 80 per cent since the Muslim Women (Protection Of Rights On Marriage) Act was enacted.

Uttar Pradesh is witnessing a spurt in triple talaq cases, with 216 FIRs filed by Muslim women since the enactment of the law which makes the practice of instant divorce a punishable offence.

Days after Parliament passed the law penalising instant triple talaq, a 25-year-old Muslim man in Madhya Pradesh's Indore allegedly divorced his wife on the spot following an argument over his one-year-old daughter disturbing his sleep.

The new legislation which makes the practice of instant divorce through ''triple talaq'' among Muslims a punishable offence with 3-year imprisonment was challenged in the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court on Friday.

A fresh bill to outlaw the Muslim practice of a man divorcing his wife instantly by uttering "talaq" thrice, which got stalled in the upper house of parliament and lapsed, was introduced in the Lok Sabha today. The government countered the opposition's charge that it was a "discriminatory" bill by pointing out that the Supreme Court's order ...

Addressing a parliamentary session held to decide on the Triple Talaq law, Union Minister Smriti Irani today wondered why there was so much opposition to curbing the controversial Islamic practice of instant divorce when the house has enacted similar legislations on dowry and sati in the past.

Even as the Lok Sabha on Thursday debated the revised bill to make instant Triple Talaq - the practice of Muslim men instantly divorcing their wives by uttering "Talaq" thrice -- a punishable offence, NDA ally Shiv Sena demanded a law for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya.

The revised bill to make instant Triple Talaq - a practice among Muslim men to instantly divorce their wives by uttering "Talaq" thrice -- a punishable offence was passed in the Lok Sabha on Thurday after five-hour debate and a walkout by the Congress and the AIADMK. Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the bill should not be seen through the "pri...

A revised bill to make instant Triple Talaq a punishable offence was taken up in the Lok Sabha today amid huge uproar. The government considered a law on it after the Supreme Court said in August last year that the traditional method of Muslim men instantly divorcing their wives by uttering "Talaq" thrice was "unconstitutional" and "arbitrary". The...

Triple talaq or instant divorce is just short of becoming a punishable offence after the government cleared an ordinance or executive order on Wednesday to enforce a proposed law that could not be passed in parliament in August. President Ram Nath Kovind signed the ordinance on Wednesday night, a top law ministry functionary said. The goverm...

The Assam government has decided to repeal the personal law governing marriages and divorces among Muslims in a big push towards a Uniform Civil Code (ICC).

Less than three weeks after Uttarakhand became the first state in independent India to pass legislation on a Uniform Civil Code, Assam has taken its first step towards a similar law by repealing the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act.

The Kerala High Court has held that a divorced Muslim woman need not be sent to a court of law for recording the talaq if it is otherwise in order as per the personal law.

The rate of divorce among Muslims has "come down by 96 per cent" since triple talaq was made a punishable offence under the law in 2019 and this has benefitted women and children, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan said on Thursday.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan lashed out at the BJP-led government at the Centre over the Triple Talaq law, questioning why the practice of instant divorce among Muslims was "criminalised when divorces happen in all religions".

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Monday said that cases of divorces in the Muslim community have dropped by 80 per cent since the Muslim Women (Protection Of Rights On Marriage) Act was enacted.

Uttar Pradesh is witnessing a spurt in triple talaq cases, with 216 FIRs filed by Muslim women since the enactment of the law which makes the practice of instant divorce a punishable offence.

Days after Parliament passed the law penalising instant triple talaq, a 25-year-old Muslim man in Madhya Pradesh's Indore allegedly divorced his wife on the spot following an argument over his one-year-old daughter disturbing his sleep.

The new legislation which makes the practice of instant divorce through ''triple talaq'' among Muslims a punishable offence with 3-year imprisonment was challenged in the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court on Friday.

A fresh bill to outlaw the Muslim practice of a man divorcing his wife instantly by uttering "talaq" thrice, which got stalled in the upper house of parliament and lapsed, was introduced in the Lok Sabha today. The government countered the opposition's charge that it was a "discriminatory" bill by pointing out that the Supreme Court's order ...

Addressing a parliamentary session held to decide on the Triple Talaq law, Union Minister Smriti Irani today wondered why there was so much opposition to curbing the controversial Islamic practice of instant divorce when the house has enacted similar legislations on dowry and sati in the past.

Even as the Lok Sabha on Thursday debated the revised bill to make instant Triple Talaq - the practice of Muslim men instantly divorcing their wives by uttering "Talaq" thrice -- a punishable offence, NDA ally Shiv Sena demanded a law for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya.

The revised bill to make instant Triple Talaq - a practice among Muslim men to instantly divorce their wives by uttering "Talaq" thrice -- a punishable offence was passed in the Lok Sabha on Thurday after five-hour debate and a walkout by the Congress and the AIADMK. Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the bill should not be seen through the "pri...

A revised bill to make instant Triple Talaq a punishable offence was taken up in the Lok Sabha today amid huge uproar. The government considered a law on it after the Supreme Court said in August last year that the traditional method of Muslim men instantly divorcing their wives by uttering "Talaq" thrice was "unconstitutional" and "arbitrary". The...

Triple talaq or instant divorce is just short of becoming a punishable offence after the government cleared an ordinance or executive order on Wednesday to enforce a proposed law that could not be passed in parliament in August. President Ram Nath Kovind signed the ordinance on Wednesday night, a top law ministry functionary said. The goverm...