After criminalising Triple Talaq, the centre is all ready to hit on ‘Nikah Halala’ and ‘polygamy’, there are a lot of petitions filed in Supreme Court to make ‘Nikah Halala’ unconstitutional.
According to the sources, Centre is all set to pick this issue when this matter will come next in Supreme Court, which earlier this year agreed to hear the petitions.
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Nikah Halala is a controversial practice which forbids a divorced couple from remarrying until the woman marries someone else, consummates her new marriage and gets divorced or widowed. While defended by the clergy, the practice has been slammed by women’s activists who have called it retrograde and anti-women and have petitioned the SC to get it banned.
The centre is challenging two practices by backing up the petitions. The Centre’s plan comes even as Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), a voluntary organisation which successfully petitioned the SC against instant talaq, has decided to join the petitioners who are seeking an end to nikah halala and polygamy.
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Zakia Soman, according to the reports, said: “We are seeking a comprehensive law regulating all aspects of marriage and family by a Quranic-based law that complies with the Constitution too. We want Halala to be a criminal offence and polygamy to be illegal. We believe the Quran doesn’t permit polygamy in today’s context. We are seeking legal protection like that for Hindu and Christian women.”