82 pc decline in triple talaq cases since law enacted by govt: Naqvi

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New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI) : There has been about 82 per cent decline in triple talaq cases since the law against the ’social evil’ was put in place, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Wednesday, terming August 1, when the legislation came into being as, ’Muslim women’s rights day’.

 

He also asserted the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019, has taken its course whenever such a matter has been reported.

In an article ’Triple Talaq -- Big Reform, Better Result’ which was posted by Press Information Bureau, Naqvi said triple talaq or talaq-e-biddat was neither Islamic nor legal, but the social evil was still given ’political patronage’ by ’merchants of votes’.

’August 1, 2019, is a historic day in Indian parliamentary history when the bill against triple talaq was made a law despite the obstacle by so-called ’champions of secularism’, including the Congress, Communist Party, Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Trinamool Congress,’ Naqvi said.

August 1 became the day which ensured gender equality and strengthened constitutional, fundamental and democratic rights of the Muslim women, he said, terming it the ’Muslim women’s rights day’.

That day will remain a ’golden moment’ in Indian democracy and parliamentary history, the minister said in the article.

’One year has passed since the law against triple talaq was passed and there is a decline of about 82 per cent in triple talaq cases thereafter,’ Naqvi said, without elaborating on the figures of such cases.

A law against the ’social evil’ of triple talaq could have been passed in 1986 when the Supreme Court had given the historic judgement in the Shah Bano case, he said.

The Congress had an absolute majority in Parliament with more than 400 out of 545 Lok Sabha members and more than 159 out of the 245 Members in Rajya Sabha, but the then Rajiv Gandhi government used its strength in Parliament to make the judgement ineffective and deprive Muslim women of their constitutional and fundamental rights, Naqvi said.

’The then Congress government had bowed down before the illogic of some ’narrow-minded fanatics’ and committed a criminal sin to deprive the Muslim women of their constitutional rights,’ Naqvi said.