Lok Sabha scheduled to take up Triple Talaq Bill today |
Indian Parliament`s lower house, the Lok Sabha took up the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018 for discussion today when the house assembled after Christmas holidays. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad moved the Bill to protect the rights of married Muslim women and to prohibit divorce by pronouncing talaq by their husbands. The Bill makes all declarations of instant triple talaq void and illegal. It seeks to make the practice a punishable offence with imprisonment of up to three years. The Bill will replace the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Ordinance-2018. The bill was being introduced again in the lok Sabha as it was not passed by the Rajya Sabha last time, and the government had brought ordinance. In the new bill, a few amendments have been incorporated. There will be debate on the provisions of the bill, but possibility of disruption of the house by opposition parties over a slew of issues including pending demand of Congress for JPC scrutiny into the Rafale deal is not ruled out.
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