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5 judges of 5 different 5 faiths on Supreme Court's bench; hearing begins today :Triple Talaq
Thursday, May 11, 2017 IST
5 judges of 5 different 5 faiths on Supreme Court

5 judges of 5 different 5 faiths on Supreme Court's bench; hearing begins today :Triple Talaq

New Delhi: A five-judge Constitution bench of Supreme Court will from Thursday start everyday hearing on a plea that the triple talaq, nikah halala, and polygamy disregarded Muslim women's' rights to equality and dignity.

The SC will initiate hearing on seven petitions, including five separate writ petitions filed by Muslim women's challenging the practice of triple talaq prevalent in the community and terming it unlawful.

The Constitution bench including Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice S Abdul Nazeer are probably going to hear the matter for seven days.

Strikingly, the individuals from the seat are from various religious communities including Sikh, Christian, Parsee, Hindu, and Muslim.

The SC will likewise take up the fundamental matter all alone as an appeal to titled "Muslim Women's quest for equality".

The hearing expect hugeness as the apex court has chosen to hear the case amid the late spring get-away and even proposed that it is probably going to sit on Saturdays and Sundays to speedily choose the antagonistic and delicate issues emerging in the matter.

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi will help the bench which will likewise look at to what extent the court can meddle in the Muslim personal laws in the event that they are observed to be violative of the basic privileges of subjects revered in the Constitution.

The apex court had all alone taken perception of the question whether Muslim women confronted sexual orientation segregation in the case of divorce or because of different marriages of their spouses.

The top court will look at the issue to give a definitive proclamation on the protected and legal validity of triple talaq, nikah halala, and polygamy rehearses among Muslims.

The hearing holds significance as the Allahabad High Court, in its decision articulated in the most recent week of April, had held the act of triple talaq as one-sided and terrible in law.

The High Court decision had come while expelling a petition filed by one Aaqil Jamil whose wife had documented a criminal grumbling against him claiming that he had tormented her for endowment and when his requests were not met, he gave her triple talaq.

The  copy  of High Court decision was made accessible just on Tuesday.

The apex court had on March 30 said that the Muslim practices of triple talaq, nikah halala, and polygamy are issues that are  "very important" and include "sentiments" and a constitution bench would hear the petitions from May 11.

Compelling Muslim organisations like the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) have restricted court's settling of these matters, keeping up these practices originated from the Holy Quran and were not justiciable.

The Muslim women who have filed the petitions have challenged the practice of triple talaq in which the husband, frequently, articulates talaq thrice in one go, now and again even by telephone or instant message.

On other hand, nikah halala is a practice proposed to check the rate of divorce under which a man can't remarry his previous wife without her going through the way toward wedding another person, fulfilling it, getting divorced, watching the partition time frame called "Iddat" and after that returning to him once more.

The apex court while alluding to the matter to a bigger bench had watched that "sentiments" were included in the matter pending before it and a five-judge Constitution bench would settle the issue, which required a nitty gritty hearing.

The apex court had before said it would choose issues relating to the legitimate parts of the acts of triple talaq, nikah halala, and polygamy among Muslims, yet would not manage the question whether divorce under Muslim law should be regulated by courts as it fell under the administrative area.

The Center had on October 7 last restricted in the Supreme Court the act of triple talaq, nikah halala, and polygamy among Muslims and favored a relook on grounds like sexual orientation uniformity and secularism.

On March 27, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) had told the apex court that pleas challenging such practices among Muslims were not viable as the issues fell outside the domain of the judiciary.

The Board had additionally said the legitimacy of the Mohammedan Law, established basically in the Holy Quran and sources in view of it, can't be tried on the specific arrangements of the Constitution.

It had said there was a requirement for "judicial restraint" before going into the sacred translation of these unless such an activity ends up noticeably unavoidable.

The Ministry of Law and Justice, in its affirmation, had alluded to sacred standards like gender equality, secularism, international covenants, religious practices and marital law predominant in different Islamic nations to commute home the point that the act of triple talaq and polygamy should have been arbitrated upon anew by the apex court.

 
 
 
 
 

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Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

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