The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to provide the details of the number of FIRs and chargesheets filed agai♌nst men for pronouncing instant triple talaq to divorce spouses in violation of the 1991 Muslim Women (Protection of Rights in Marriage) Act.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar, hearing as many as 12 petitions challenging the constitutionality of the 19✃91 law, also asked the Centre and o🎃ther parties to file their written submissions to the pleas.
The bench fixed th♊e petitions for fi꧙nal hearing in the week commencing March 17.
Samastha ๊Kerala Jamiathul Ulema, a Kozhikode-based Muslim organisation, is the lead petiꦬtioner in the case.
“The respondent (Centre) shall file the total number of FIRs and charge sheets pending under section 3 and 4 of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights of Marriage) Act 2019. The parties also file written submis🤡sions not e🐬xceeding three pages in support of their contention,” the bench said.
Instant 'triple talaq', also known as 'talaq-e-biddat', is an instant divorce whereby a Muslim maဣn can legally divorce his wife by pronouncing 'talaq' three tim🍸es in one go.
Under the law, instant 'triple talaq' has been declared as illegal and void and will attract a jail term of three ✅years for the husband.
In a landmark verdict, the apex court on August 22, 2017 had put the curtains down on a 1,400 year old practice of 'triple talaq' among Muslims and set it as🌞ide on several grounds, including that it was against th♛e basic tenets of Quran and violated the Islamic law Shariat.
