Lok Sabha passes
New Delhi, July 25 (IBNS): The Lok Sabha today passed the contentious bill that would criminalise instant triple talaq.
This was the third time the bill has been passed by the Lower House. It still has to be passed by the Rajya Sabha before it can become a law.
According to the new law, Muslim men could fail jail for exercising the triple talaq practice, which is essentially divorcing their wife by uttering "Talaq" thrice.
The Opposition has opposed the bill in its present form. Even NDA constituent JDU staged a walkout.
"Twenty Muslim countries in the world, including Pakistan and Malaysia, have banned the triple talaq. Why can't a secular India do it?" law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
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