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advance arguments in SC
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May 11, 2017| UPDATED21:00 IST A+ A-

New Delhi, May 11 (PTI) A battery of senior advocates today advanced arguments in the
Supreme Court which commenced the crucial hearing on a clutch of petitions challenging
the constitutional validity of the practice of triple talaq and nikah halala among Muslims.

They argued that the practice of triple talaq was not fundamental to Islam and can be done
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to equality of Muslim women guaranteed under Articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution.

All India Muslim Personal Law Board and other Muslim organisations will get a chance in
the course of the hearing, likely to go on for at least six days, to present their stand on these
sensitive issues. Senior advocate Yusuf H Muchhala will appear for some Muslim
organisations.
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The Centre, through law ocers Tushar Mehta and Pinky Anand, maintained that it was not
taking any side and was assisting the ve-judge Constitution bench on the issues of gender .
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While senior advocate Amit Singh Chadha opened the arguments for Shyara Bano, who was
one of the rst petitioner, saying neighbouring Islamic countries like Pakistan and
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of triple talaq to the extent a Muslim man exercises power to declare a unilateral divorce
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She said the impact of such practices was that Muslim women lost their right to residence,
were driven to claim maintenance and custody of their children in a court of law which is byTaboola
often denied to them at the stage of unilateral divorce.

"Marriage is a contract that entails change in life and a commitment that two people make
to each other out of natural love and affection to share and care for each other. The rights
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conferred by virtue of the marriage are legitimacy of children, custody of children, right to
reside in matrimonial home.

"It stands to reason that if that contract has to be terminated, it must be done with good
reason and with due regard to the rights of both the parties to the marriage and by a judicial
forum," the senior lawyer said.

Grover said that section 2 of the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937 does
not talk about triple talaq. He said "talaq in section 2 of the Act has to be interpreted to
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Jaising argued that "the key question would be whether personal laws will have to stand
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scrutiny of fundamental laws."

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"Regardless of the legal system, all the system will have to comply at the end of the day with
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Jaising, however, said "Sharia law is recognised with Sharia Act. It is a law and not religion.
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We have to rst deal with what is law and then we can go into personal law," Jaising said.

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"Our main concern is no matter how liberally you interpret triple talaq, it is unilateral. It is an
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The senior counsel also said the question which the bench would have to deal with was
whether the status of a woman was "degraded" just because her husband has said talaq
three times at one go. SocialNews
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She said if the divorce was mutual, there was no issue, but in a case of triple talaq, the issue
of consent of the wife is immaterial.

"The bottom line is consent because as an individual, we all are citizens and are equal," she
said, adding that it is a discrimination that Muslim men can give talaq unilaterally but
Muslim women have to go to court for this.

She also said that Sharia was voluntary and therefore it cannot be binding.

To this, the bench asked her to explain how triple talaq violated the Constitution.

Responding to it, she said, "whether in our Constitution extra judicial divorce can be given?
This is a kind of extra judicial divorce." SCStartedIt'shearingAfter
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She said in cases of mutual consent there was no problem but issues arose when there is a
dispute over divorce. "This court has to decide whether some kind of judicial oversight
should be there," she said adding that triple talaq affects the status of woman.

"Extra-judicial divorce is unconstitutional. If you say marriage in Muslim law is a

contract,then you cannot revoke it unilaterally without following the law. Allowing such
extra- judicial divorce is against the law of the land," she said, adding that there were

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Taking a dig at lawmakers, Jaising said they always say that they are concerned about
women but despite sitting in Parliament, they do not do anything on this.

To this, the bench asked "if Parliament does not show its commitment on this, can this
forum show its commitment on this issue?"
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Grover, however, said that in this matter, the Union of India has been more aggressive than
the petitioners who have challenged the constitutional validity of triple talaq. Tallest railway bridge in the
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Jaising argued that India was a secular state and not a bureaucratic state like Afghanistan J-K

where there are Sharia courts.

"Absence of this kind of judicial forum here makes this practice illegal and unconstitutional.
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The bench, however, said the issue was very important and serious, having far-reaching
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