: Talaq-e-Hasan: SC says its focus is to give relief to women petitioners #IndiaNEWS The Supreme Court on Monday said that its priority is to give relief to two women petitioners, who claim to be victims

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Talaq-e-Hasan: SC says its focus is to give relief to women petitioners #IndiaNEWS
The Supreme Court on Monday said that its priority is to give relief to two women petitioners, who claim to be victims of Talaq-e-Hasan, rather than deciding the constitutionality of the divorce, PTI reported.Talaq-e-Hasan is a practice in which a Muslim man divorces his wife by uttering the word “talaq� once a month over 90 days. At the end of the third utterance, the divorce is considered granted.The practice is different from instant triple talaq, or Talaq-e-Biddah, which was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2019. In this practice, a man could instantly divorce his wife by pronouncing “talaq� three times.On Monday, a bench of Justices SK Kaul and Abhay S Oka was hearing petitions filed by journalist Benazeer Heena and Nazreen Nisha, challenging the constitutional validity of Talaq-e-Hasan.“We thought that you wanted a remedy for yourselves,� the bench said. “Our concern is sometimes in the endeavour to raise a larger issue, what relief the parties need gets lost.�The bench said it will send notices to the complainants’ husbands and seek responses from them, PTI reported. The constitutional validity of the divorce will be decided later, it said.“There are two people before us, who need relief and we are concerned with that,� Justice Oka said. “We...Read more

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