On Monday, The Supreme Court accepted a suit filed by a woman to affirm the practice of triple talaq( which means a bar against remarriage with divorced husband without an interceding marriage with another man) and polygamy under the personal laws of Muslim as illegal , unlawful of the right to freedom of equality and religion under the Indian Constitution.

A.K .Goel and Anil R. Dave from the justice bench issued a notice to the Centre on the case filed by the woman named Shayara Bano and she introduced herself in the suit as a “Muslim citizen whose husband has attempted to illegally divorce her after frequently subjecting her to cruelty during the currency of their marriage”.

Ms.Bano said, “I only wished to secure a life of dignity, un marred by discrimination on the basis of gender or religion” through Advocate Amit Singh Chadha and Balaji Srinivasan.

 She also said “many Islamic nations like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Iraq, have already banned such practices, although they continue to vex not only Indian Muslim women but also the society at large, not withstanding that the Muslim community of India has itself been clamouring for reform and ban of oppressive practices that have no basis in Islam or the Holy Quran”

Shayara added “Practice of polygamy is not an integral part of Islam, and polygamy has been recognised as injurious to public morals. The practices under challenge, which practically treat women like chattel belonging to men, are neither harmonious with the modern principles of human rights and gender equality nor an integral part of Islamic faith,”