Supreme Court admits pleas against Talaq-e-Hasan

The Supreme Court on Tuesday admitted the pleas seeking 'Talaq-e-Hasan' and every one different sorts of "unilateral illegal divorce" to be declared unconstitutional. 'Talaq-e-Hasan' may be a style of divorce among Muslims whereby a person will dissolve the wedding by saying the word 'talaq' once each month over a three-month amount.

A three-judge bench headed by Justices S K Kaul asked the Centre, National Commission for ladies, National Human Rights Commission et al. to file their responses at intervals four weeks. 

"Counsel for the non-public respondent (husband) has entered look and seeks to affirm that he's not agreeable to settlement even on issue of any support payment. List within the third week of January for final hearing," the bench, conjointly comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Vikram Nath, said. 

The apex court was hearing 3 separate petitions, together with the one filed by Ghaziabad resident Benazeer Heena, UN agency claimed to be victims of unilateral illegal Talaq-e-Hasan.

They have conjointly sought-after a direction to the Centre to border the rules for gender and religion-neutral and uniform grounds of divorce and procedure for all voters. 

The top court had earlier impeached the husbands of the petitioners and sought-after their response to the pleas filed by them. 

When the hearing commenced these days, the professional person showing for Benazeer's husband hip to the court that no settlement was doable within the dispute together with his better half. 

The bench then asked the parties to file their responses and aforesaid it'll hear the case within the third week of January, 2023.

The top court had in August aforesaid its primary focus is to supply relief to 2 girls, UN agency claimed to be victims of Talaq-e-Hasan, before deciding the constitutional validity of this type of divorce. 

Under Talaq-e-Hasan, a divorce gets formalised once the third auditory communication of the word 'talaq' within the third month if living together has not resumed throughout this era. However, if living together resumes once the primary or second auditory communication of talaq, the parties square measure assumed to own reconciled.