The chorus against the triple talaq practice through which Muslim men instantly snap their marital bond just got louder.
In the latest development, the chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state minorities commission of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Abid Rasool Khan, has addressed a letter to the president of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), Moulana Syed Mohammed Rabe Hasani Nadvi, urging the Board to immediately declare that henceforth the utterance talaq, talaq, talaq will be treated as one only and therefore revocable.
"Today we have a huge social problem in the Muslim community where literally lakhs of women all over the country are suffering because their men have divorced them by pronouncing talaq thrice [in one sitting]," the letter said.
"I would like to alert you that if you (AIMPLB) insist on the triple talaq, you will be committing injustice to literally lakhs of our sisters and opening the doors for the Supreme Court to strike down this law as it is seen as being in violation of human rights," it added.
Citing the examples of the Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987, providing for “the more effective prevention of the commission of sati and its glorification” which made the earlier act far more stringent and the recent verdict of the Bombay High Court upholding women’s right to equal access, on par with men, to the Haji Ali dargah, the letter warned of a similar fate awaiting the triple talaq practice.
Going a step further the letter also warned the Board and the Jamiatul Ulema that "this (triple talaq) has become an issue which has the potential to escalate and cause the eventual de-recognition of our personal law and the imposition of a uniform civil code," he said.