Winter Parliament Session: The Muslim Women Bill on triple talaq to table by Modi led Govt
Winter Parliament Session: The Muslim Women Bill on triple talaq to table by Modi led Govt
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NEW Delhi:  The Saffron government is expected to set up a bill on conflict-ridden triple talaq in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

As per The directory of Business posted on the Lok Sabha website depict that The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights of Marriage) Bill will be present by Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad on today winter session of parliament.

 As per reports The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2017 criminalizes current triple talaq, or talaq-e-biddat, and slaps a prison term of up to three years on husbands who disobey the law.

This Bill also provides terms for alimony for the woman on whom current triple talaq has been marked and grants her the custody of children.

For now, as per a report, the BJP has issued a fluff up to all its MPs to be present at the Winter Parliament session while the government introduces the Muslim Women bill today.

In a remarkable decision on August 22 taken by a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court observed current triple talaq as against the law.

The woman can also try to get the custody of her minor children from the magistrate who will hear a final call on the issue.

Following the Supreme Court's decision uttering the 'triple talaq' as illogical, Muslim outfits have been up in arms `in opposition to it with the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind pronouncing that in any case of what the legal position is, instant triple talaq would carry on to take place in Muslim society.

 

 

 

 

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