India to jail muslims divorcing wives with ‘triple talaq’

The Indian government on Thursday presented a law in parliament aimed at persecuting and imprisoning Muslim men who have divorced their women through the "triple talaq" or the current divorce.  Indian Muslim women have complained that a threefold talaq violates their right to equality.  In August, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional, a religious practice that allows Muslim men to divorce their women by simply expelling the word "talaq" three times.  Muslim women filed a lawsuit claiming that husbands who divorced them through "triple talaq", including Skype and WhatsApp, not only violated their rights, but left many women disabled. "Only a law can explicitly prohibit a threefold talaq, we must take legal action to secure an allowance and protect the custody of children," Justice Minister Ravi Prasad said.  A bill of law, if approved, would make a practice of non-compliance with a possible three-year term of imprisonment.  Muslims are the largest religious minority in Indian majority India, and relations between communities are periodically tense, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his HKD Bharatiya Janata won the 2014 elections.  India is one of the few countries that survived the current divorce practice, and some Muslim groups said that, although it was wrong, the law should look at the community itself.  Members of the All India Muslim Personal Rights Committee argue that the government did not have the right to expel the immediate triple talaq because it was directly blended into Muslim personal law.
 Reuters

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