| Title | WOMEN'S RIGHTS - Triple-Talaq |
| Date-wise Events | October 24, 2016: The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, took a clear position disapproving the muslim men's right to divorce their spouse based on triple talaq chant. The muslim women activists in particular and a vast majority of Indians all across have welcomed the pronouncement by the Prime Minister, who said it was neither a political nor religious, but a development issue. |
| Description | In the triple ṭalaq divorce, the husband pronounces the phrase "I divorce you" thrice to his wife. A man may divorce his wife three times, taking her back after the first two (reconciling). After pronouncing Talaq either once or twice or thrice, the man has to wait for 3 menstrual periods before finally letting his wife leave. However, if the couple want to come together after the Talaq is completed, the Quran states that there is no harm in doing so after the wife has married another man and has divorced him (known as 'Talaq Halala'). Some do a "triple ṭalāq", in which the man says in one sitting "I divorce you" three times (or "I divorce you, three times", "you're triple divorced"). The muslim women have never been able to accept this phenonmenon because it deprives them of their natural rights as human beings. So many of them, through the aegis of women activists and advocates, have been challeging such divorces. It is largely felt that the triple talaq phenomenon is also against the basic spirit of the Indian Constitution. Despite this many muslim male dominated organisations have opposed the Governments indulgence to ban triple talaq. Some of the vote bank exploiting political parties have also opposed the Goverments stand point on this issue, disregarding what the Indian Constitution dictates. |
