Shayara Bano's 2016 petition led the Supreme Court to set aside instant triple talaq by a 3:2 majority on 22 August 2017. Parliament's Muslim Women (Protection…
Petitions challenge the Act's criminal penalty. On 29 January 2025 the Supreme Court asked the Union for the number of FIRs under Sections 3 and 4.
It makes instant triple talaq void and illegal, with up to three years' imprisonment and a fine, plus subsistence allowance and custody for the wife.
The Lok Sabha passed the Bill on 25 July, with the motion to consider carried 303 to 82. The Rajya Sabha passed it on 30 July, 99 to 84.
The Lok Sabha passed a Bill in December 2017 and a revised one in December 2018, but neither cleared the Rajya Sabha. Ordinances followed in September 2018, January 2019…
A five-judge Constitution Bench set aside talaq-e-biddat by a 3:2 majority. The order created no penalty.
No. Justices Nariman and Lalit relied on Article 14; Justice Kurian Joseph on the Quran. The Chief Justice and Justice Nazeer directed Parliament to legislate.
She filed a writ petition in February 2016 challenging talaq-e-biddat, polygamy and nikah halala.
According to the judgment, her husband's deed of divorce dated 10 October 2015 recorded that he said talak three times before two witnesses.
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