Divorced Via Lawyer's Letter - Talaq-e Hasan: Next Triple Talaq?
The Supreme Court has questioned the validity of talaq-e-hasan, a form of triple talaq in which a Muslim man can divorce his wife by pronouncing the word 'talaq' once a month for three months, as the top judiciary revisited the issue of divorce among Muslims. Eight years ago, the court had outlawed instant triple talaq, or talaq-e-biddat, calling the practice "bad in law." Talaq-e-hasan is another form of triple talaq, different from talaq-e-biddat, in which divorce is granted instantly.
"How is this allowed in modern society?" asked a bench of Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan, and NK Singh while hearing multiple petitions challenging the validity of talaq-e-hasan this morning.
