{"id":33208,"date":"2018-10-30T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33208"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:50:56","slug":"divorce-as-crime-on-instant-triple-talaq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/divorce-as-crime-on-instant-triple-talaq\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce as crime: on instant triple talaq\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/divorce-as-crime-on-instant-triple-talaq\/article21827644.ece\"><strong>Divorce as crime: on instant triple talaq<\/strong><\/a><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Triple Talaq<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author\u2019s contention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author contends that the Centre\u2019s\u00a0proposal to make instant triple talaq an offence\u00a0punishable with three-year imprisonment and a fine is an unnecessary attempt to convert a civil wrong into a criminal act<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is well established that criminalising something does not have any deterrent effect on its practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Backdrop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By a three-two majority, the Supreme Court has already declared, and correctly, that the practice of talaq-e-biddat, or instant divorce of a Muslim woman by uttering the word \u2018talaq\u2019 thrice, is illegal and unenforceable. While two judges in the majority said the practice was arbitrary and, therefore, unconstitutional, the third judge ruled that it was illegal because it was contrary to Islamic tenet<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consequence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Its consequence is that the husband\u2019s marital obligations remain, regardless of his intention in pronouncing it<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sufficient provisions already exist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen president, AsaduddinOwaisi, has argued in a letter to the Union Law Minister that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no need for a fresh criminal provision when existing laws, under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code or provisions of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, already allow the prosecution of a husband for inflicting physical or mental cruelty, emotional and economic abuse, and for deprivation of financial resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether instant talaq would fall under any of these forms of cruelty or domestic violence, criminalising it risks defeating the objective of preserving the husband\u2019s legal obligations, and the payment of maintenance. The Centre would do well to reconsider its draft and limit its scope to providing relief to women, instead of creating a new offence out of a civil matter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divorce as crime: on instant triple talaq\u00a0 Context Triple Talaq Author\u2019s contention Author contends that the Centre\u2019s\u00a0proposal to make instant triple talaq an offence\u00a0punishable with three-year imprisonment and a fine is an unnecessary attempt to convert a civil wrong into a criminal act It is well established that criminalising something does not have any deterrent&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/divorce-as-crime-on-instant-triple-talaq\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Divorce as crime: on instant triple talaq\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704761860},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}