(DNA)
A day after it commenced a historic hearing on a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the practice of triple talaq, the Supreme Court on Friday observed it was the worst and undesirable form of dissolution of marriage.
There are “school of thoughts (which) say that triple talaq is legal, but it is the worst and not desirable form for dissolution of marriages among Muslims,” a five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar, said on the second day of continued hearing on the matter.
Calling triple talaq ‘abhorrent’, senior advocate Ram Jethmalani said it does not give women equal right to divorce. On Thursday, the top court had said it would determine whether the practice of triple talaq was fundamental to Islam, with the government making it clear that such a form of divorce was against gender justice and those challenging it asserting that it was not part of the religious tenets.
