Lucknow: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) will do away with the practice of triple talaq in a year-and-a-half, said Dr Sayeed Sadiq, vice-president of the body, adding that there was no need for “government interference".
The statement comes two days after the AIMPLB claimed that it had received 3.50 crore forms from Muslim women around the country favouring Shariyat and triple talaq.
The board had recently told the Supreme Court that the pleas challenging the practice among Muslims were not maintainable as the issues fell outside the realm of judiciary.
The board had also said that the validity of Mohammedan Law, founded essentially on the Holy Quran and sources based on it, cannot be tested on the particular provisions of the Constitution.
The Ministry of Law and Justice, in its affidavit, had referred to constitutional principles like gender equality, secularism, international covenants, religious practices and marital law prevalent in various Islamic countries to drive home the point that the practice of triple talaq and polygamy needed to be adjudicated upon afresh by the apex court.
The latest to speak out against triple talaq was Salma Ansari, the wife of Vice-President Hamid Ansari. On the sidelines of a function on April 9, Salma had said that uttering 'talaq' thrice does not amount to divorce and asked Muslim women to read the Quran thoroughly instead of relying on clerics.
"If you've read the Quran then you can find the solution there itself. There is no such rule in Quran. They have just made it up. There is no such thing. You read the Quran in Arabic and don't read the translation. You accept whatever the Maulana (clerics) or the Mulla says. You must read the Quran and Hadis. Just see what Rasool had said," she had said.
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