The All India Muslim Women Personal law Board and the All India Shia Personal law Board welcomed the Supreme Court judgment on triple talaq, terming it as a victory of Islam and Muslim women in the country.
“The practice of triple talaq in one sitting was illegal, arbitrary, unreasonable and unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has declared the anti women practice as null and void’’, said Shaista Amber, president of the All Indian Muslim women personal law board. She said, “The SC verdict would end the tyranny of triple talaq as large number of married Muslim women were living under the constant fear of being divorced by their husbands’’.
Asking the Government to enact a new law as directed by the apex court without harming the Sharia, she hoped that a new legislation will be brought without any pressure to ensure welfare and social security of the Muslim women.
“The Government on the lines of the Hindu marriage act should enact the muslim marriage act. The mullahs who were misleading the muslims that the Government will implement uniform civil code are disappointed by the Supreme Court’s verdict and they can no longer mislead the community’’, said Shaista Amber.
“The Supreme Court’s decision has given new hope and a new lease of life to the Muslim women who were victims of triple talaq. The Supreme Court decision is historic; it is the victory of women in the country. But more than that, it is the victory of Islam,” said Shaista Amber, who has been fighting for the rights of Muslim women for last couple of decades.
“We hope that triple talaq will be banned once and for all in times to come,” she said, adding it causes immense hardships to Muslim women even though “there is no provision of triple talaq in Islam”. “This discriminatory arrangement is made by so-called religious leaders and it has harmed the lives of lakhs of women. The decision has given new hope to Muslim women,” she said.