The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) moved the Supreme Court on Monday seeking impleadment in petitions challenging constitutional validity of polygamy and “nikah halala” practised among Muslims.
The application has been filed to oppose a batch of petitions on which the SC had in 2018 issued notices to the Centre and other stakeholders while referring the matter to a 5-judge Constitution bench.
While polygamy allows a Muslim man to have four wives, “nikah halala” stipulates that a Muslim woman, who wants to remarry her husband after divorce, has to first marry another man, “consummate” the marriage and get divorce from him.
The two issues had arisen when the SC was dealing with the practice of triple talaq. By a 3:2 verdict, a five-judge Constitution bench on August 22, 2017 had banned the 1,400 year-old practice among Sunni Muslims saying it was against the basic tenets of the Quran and violated Shariat.