The Supreme Court on Friday, 23 August agreed to examine the petitions challenging the validity of a newly enacted law which makes the practice of instant divorce through triple talaq among Muslims a punishable offence entailing imprisonment of up to three years.
A bench of justices NV Ramana and Ajay Rastogi issued notice the Centre on a batch of petitions which has sought to declare The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act 2019 as “unconstitutional” on grounds that it allegedly violates the provisions of the Constitution.
“We will examine this,” the bench told senior advocate Salman Khurshid, who was appearing for one of the petitioners.