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2019-08-01 India-Pakistan
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Indian Muslim 'instant divorce' ban hailed but faces court challenge
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[DAWN] The Indian government and women's groups hailed "historic" legislation on Wednesday that criminalised "instant divorce" for Moslems, but an influential Islamic group said it would launch a legal challenge.
India's upper house passed a bill on Tuesday banning the centuries-old practice that allowed men to separate from their wives by saying "talaq" ‐ or divorce ‐ three times.
Husbands who use it now can be placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
for up to three years or be fined.
Some Moslem women's groups celebrated at events across India, which has followed Pakistain, Bangladesh, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in regulating "triple talaq".
Zakia Soman, a social activist who launched a campaign against the practice nearly a decade ago, said the legislation would serve as a deterrent against the unjust treatment of women, some of whom were divorced with a WhatsApp message or by phone.
"This law is the result of decades of injustice meted out to Moslem women and the unsympathetic attitude of the political class and clergy," Soman told AFP.
The government called the parliament vote "historic".
"An archaic and medieval practice has finally been confined to the dustbin of history," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter late Tuesday.
'MEDIEVAL' DIVORCE BANNED
But other Moslem groups fought the law and even the opposition Congress Party was against it, accusing Modi's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of targeting one minority group.
Zafaryab Jilani of the All India Moslem Personal Law Board vowed on Wednesday to challenge the new legislation in court.
He said the action was part of a wider campaign by Modi's Hindu nationalist party to undermine religious freedom.
"We are not surprised by the legislation as it is part of their larger agenda to change the country's constitution and snatch away the rights of minorities," Jilani, secretary of the Moslem group, told AFP.
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