A 40-year-old man was arrested on Monday for allegedly giving triple talaq, a punishable offence, to his spouse, officers mentioned.
The person was arrested from Bengaluru airport whereas he was scheduled to go away for Britain on Monday morning, they added.
“The incident occurred on October 2022, however got here to gentle earlier this month after his spouse, aged 36, filed a police grievance in east Delhi’s Kalyanpuri,” a police officer mentioned.
The Muslim Girls (Safety of Rights on Marriage) Act 2019, which the Parliament handed in July 2019, makes the follow of prompt divorce via the ‘triple talaq’ amongst Muslims a punishable offence.
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Triple talaq (prompt divorce) and talaq-e-mughallazah (irrevocable divorce) at the moment are banned devices of divorce beforehand obtainable to Muslims within the nation, particularly adherents of Hanafi Sunni Islamic colleges of jurisprudence.
They’ve been made punishable with as much as three years in jail for the husband. Below the brand new legislation, an aggrieved lady is entitled to upkeep for her dependent youngsters.
On August 22, 2017, the Supreme Courtroom deemed prompt triple talaq (talaq-e-biddah) unconstitutional.
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A Muslim man might legally divorce his spouse by proclaiming 3 times consecutively the phrase talaq (the Arabic phrase for ‘divorce’) (in spoken, written or, extra just lately, digital kind).
The Centre first launched the Triple Talaq Invoice in Parliament on August 22, 2017. MPs from the Rashtriya Janata Dal, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, Biju Janata Dal, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Indian Nationwide Congress and All India Muslim League opposed the Invoice.
A number of Opposition lawmakers referred to as for it to be despatched to a choose committee for scrutiny. It was handed on December 28, 2017 by the Lok Sabha, the place the ruling BJP was within the majority.
The Invoice adopted a 2017 Supreme Courtroom ruling that the follow of prompt Triple Talaq was unconstitutional and a divorce pronounced by uttering ‘talaq’ 3 times in a single sitting is void and unlawful.