Kochi: A leader of IUML said on Sunday that Muslim bodies would challenge it in the Supreme Court, if the Rajya Sabha will also pass it, alleging that the “illegality” in the provisions of the bill that criminalizes instant Triple Talaq.
The Lok Sabha had passed the bill last week, which could punish three sentences for the husband. In the Lok Sabha, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader, PK Kunjalikutty, alleged that there were many “Lacunae” and “contradictions “in the bill passed by the Lower House last week. The IUML’s National Secretary General said that if the Bill was also passed by the Rajya Sabha, different Muslim bodies in the country would move the Supreme Court. Striking over the BJP government, he alleged that the “party criminalization of the problem of a family is completely politically motivated” by the ruling party. “It is a bid by the Center to intervene in private law,” said the IUMM leader.
He allegedly said that there was negligence in the bill and he said that if the husband goes to jail for saying”Talaq” three times. The bill does not answer many basic questions, including the protection of wife and children. They also claimed that there is no practice of Triple Talc in the country.
After rejecting a string of amendments made by the opposition members last week, the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill was passed by Lok Sabha.
The bill will be sent to Rajya Sabha for passing and before that it was being sent to the President for signing the law. Given the written support of Congress, this bill is likely to be passed by the Rajya Sabha, where there is no majority in the government. In August, the Supreme Court had declared illegal instant Triple Talaq and demanded the government to make a law within six months.
Members of RJD, BJD, AIADMK, AIMIM and All India Muslim League had opposed this bill and said that this was an arbitrary and faulty proposal in nature. The IUML of ET Mohammed Basheer and AIMIM of Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that the government was trying to bring uniform civil code through the bill.
