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Triple talaq is not a battle of the majority and minority communities but a tussle between Muslim men and women, the government said on Wednesday, as it mounted a fierce defence of its call for scrapping the controverial practice of instant divorce.
Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi’s comments before the Supreme Court was in counter to the All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s (AIMPLB) argument that laws governing Hindus protected the community’s customs but the government was not doing the same for the minorities.
Several Muslim women have approached the top court asking it to declare triple talaq unconstitutional because it is discriminatory and violated their right to equality. Women cannot pronounce triple talaq and are required to move a court for getting divorce under the Sharia Act, 1937. “The call to banish triple talaq is not a battle between minority and majority (communities) but a tussle between women and men of the same community,” Rohatgi said on the fifth day of the hearing that began last week.
