Muslim Women Rights Day” organised at National Commission for Minorities office in New Delhi
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: “1st August is a day which made Muslim women free from social evil of Triple Talaq”
Naqvi says that Triple Talaq or Talaq-a-Biddat was neither Islamic nor legal.
The Union ministry of minority affairs announced that Muslim Women's Rights Day will be observed across the nation on August 1 and it will celebrate the second anniversary of the enactment of the law against triple talaq.
- The central government enacted the law on August 1, 2019, that has made the practice of instant triple talaq a criminal offence.
Muslim Women's Rights Day is observed across the nation on August 1 to celebrate the enactment of the law against triple talaq. The central government enacted the law on August 1, 2019, that has made the practice of instant triple talaq a criminal offence.
→The legislation classifying triple talaq as a criminal offence came into effect on August 1, 2019.
* The Government has strengthened "self-reliance, self-respect and self-confidence" of the Muslim women of the country and protected their constitutional, fundamental and democratic rights by bringing the law against the Triple Talaq, Naqvi said.
The Supreme Court in August 2017 declared the practice of triple talaq or a form of divorce based on the husband pronouncing divorce thrice in quick succession as 'unconstitutional'
