Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi made the remarks Sunday at an event commemorating two years of the Muslim Women (Protection Of Rights On Marriage) Act.
At a conference, several Muslim women narrated their struggle with the legal system after they sought to file complaints against their husbands over triple talaq.
Justices N.V. Ramana and Ajay Rastogi issued notice to the Centre on a batch of petitions which seeks to declare the recently passed triple talaq bill as unconstitutional.
The law, which came into being last week, makes any form of talaq having the effect of instantaneous divorce pronounced by a Muslim husband void and illegal.
Modi govt wants to promote a pro-women narrative but has made no effort to pass women’s reservation bill in Lok Sabha where it enjoys a brute majority.
With the Presidential assent, the triple talaq bill makes the Muslim practice of giving 'talaq' (divorce) by oral or written communication a punishable offence.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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