The Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan wants the Bill, which is aimed at criminialising triple talaq and was cleared by the Union Cabinet this week, to cover all aspects of codification of the Muslim Personal Law
A Muslim women's right group has appealed to opposition party leaders to widen the ambit of the Bill on triple talaq, a controversial practice used by some Muslim men to dissolve their marriage with just a single word, so that it becomes a family law.
The Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan wants the Bill, which is aimed at criminialising triple talaq and was cleared by the Union Cabinet this week, to cover all aspects of codification of the Muslim Personal Law.
"The Bill is to be introduced in the Parliament. So that it is not reject, we want that it not just be discussed but also the scope of the Bill should not be restricted to triple talaq," said Noorjehan Safia Niaz, co-convenor of BMMA.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party, BSP's Mayawati, Left's Sitaram Yechury, members of the CPI national council are among those who have been approached by the BMMA. "We had already written to the government saying that a law and codification of the Muslim personal law is required," said Noorjehan.
The group said that codification can happen either by amending the Shariat Application Act, 1937 as well as the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 or by bringing in a completely new enactment of Muslim personal law. It also attaches the findings of its survey report where in 92.1 per cent women wanted a total ban on oral/unilateral divorce and 91.7 per cent were opposed to polygamy and 83.3 per cent woman said that codification of Muslim family law will help Muslim women get justice.
Minimum age of marriage with consent, polygamy, instant or triple talaq, declaration of halala and muta marriage as illegal, custody of children, mehr and method and processes of divorce are among the other suggestions that the group has requested to be incorporated in the draft Bill.
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