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Monsoon Session 2018: Consensus over Triple Talaq Bill eludes again

The original Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha last year, but had hit a road block in the Rajya Sabha where the BJP-led NDA is in minority.

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The government failed to pass the draft Bill making triple talaq a cognisable offence on the last day of Monsoon Session as the parties failed to arrive at a consensus in the Rajya Sabha on the provisions of the Bill.

"The Triple Talaq Bill will not be taken up today because no consensus could be built around it," Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu said as the House sat after lunch on the last day of the session.

The House is expected to take up the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017, in the winter session of Parliament. The Centre, in the meantime, is mulling over bringing an ordinance to enact the law.

The original Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha last year, but had hit a road block in the Rajya Sabha where the BJP-led NDA is in minority.

The government had moved the Bill almost immediately after the Cabinet gave nod on changes to its provisions diluting two contentious provisions with the hope that the Opposition will let it pass in the upper house.

The changes allow only a woman, or a close relative, to file a police case against her husband for giving instant triple talaq and drop the case if the husband comes around later and both arrive at a compromise.

Another amended provision mandates that the magistrate can decide on releasing the husband on bail only after hearing the wife.

However, the government has not toned down the three year jail penalty for the husband or the provision that only empowers a magistrate, and not a local police officer, to release the accused on bail.

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