Triple Talaq is a criminal offence

@suripunj (956)
New Delhi, India
January 6, 2018 5:29am CST
Soon India government will present the bill in upper house which if passed will criminalize the utterance of triple Talaq and will sentence husband for 3 years if found guilty.The opposition is protesting the bill arguing that it is anti women because if husband is jailed he can very well get rid off paying alimony to his wife. Government saying the bill will be deterent to this Mal practice where in husband divorces wife on whim. What is your opinion about it are you in favor of this bill or opposed to?
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@topffer (42156)
• France
6 Jan 18
A better law would have been to impose a written marriage settlement in India. In a settlement it is possible to give this talaq right to both spouses or to one of them only, husband or wife. It would have settled the talaq problem without looking like a law targeting only Muslims. The fact is that this bill does not solve anything : according to the sharia law the divorce is valid, and sending the husband to jail for a maximum of 3 months will not stop the use of talaq, 3 months is a too small sentence.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
6 Jan 18
@suripunj I wrote 3 months because you wrote 3 months, I am not following your bills.
@suripunj (956)
• New Delhi, India
6 Jan 18
it can go even for 3 years imprisonment.
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
6 Jan 18
Maybe I could have an opinion on the topic if I knew what triple Talaq means. Not all members live in your country and know Indian customs.
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
6 Jan 18
@JolietJake Thank you for the explanation but I'd like to have it included in the post by the author. The post is another example of the fact that many members think that their world is 'the' world and everybody knows what they know.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
6 Jan 18
@MALUSE No one should ignore the (sharia) law.
@suripunj (956)
• New Delhi, India
6 Jan 18
@MALUSE My apologies.I lost my track- may be because you were not around.Spare the stick spoil the [child] Nice to see you here. As JJ correctly said this is the Muslim way to divorce his wife by simply uttering Talaq 3 times and the divorce formalized.This custom has victimized Muslim women lot because husband out of anger ,whim and in other emotion repeat this word 3 times in any means even on sms or whats up and they are no longer husband and wife.So the government has drafted a bill to criminalize this practice over riding Muslim personal law board.But the opposition of this bill is that if husband is sent to jail how he can pay the maintenance (alimony) to his wife and under that circumstances divorced women will suffer not lesser because most of Indian Muslim women are dependent upon their husband for livelihood. Personally i am favor to bill which deters this practice but sentencing husband will do no good as this will further diminish the chances of reconciliation between two parties. I think i could explain this to just have brief idea of what it is all about ?Whats your opinion on this subject matter.
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