Triple Talaq: SC Grants Centre Four Weeks to Respond

The Centre sought more time to respond to a batch of petitions on triple talaq and the plight of Muslim women.

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• The Supreme Court on Monday granted four weeks’ time to the Centre to file its reply on a batch of petitions on triple talaq and the plight of Muslim women.
  
  
• A bench comprising Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice DY Chandrachud gave the extension after additional solicitor general Tushar Mehta sought time to respond.
  
  
• On 2 September, All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), in its counter affidavit filed in the apex court, had said the contentious issues relating to Muslim practices of polygamy, triple talaq (talaq-e-bidat) and nikah halala are matters of “legislative policy” and cannot be interfered with.

(With inputs from PTI.)