New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that triple talaq was a “sin and undesirable” act, but still permissible and efforts are on to educate the community against its misuse.
Asking the court not to interfere with triple talaq as it was also a matter of faith which the community has practised for 1,400 years since the birth of Islam, senior counsel Yusuf Hatim Muchchala said that though permissible, triple talaq “is a sin and undesirable act, we are trying to educate people” but “it will take some time”.
Muchchala, who is also a member of the AIPMLB’s Executive Committee, made his suggestion to the five judge constitution bench in response to a question from it as to why triple talaq was excluded from the ‘Nikah Nama’ and why ‘talaq ahasan’ and ‘hasan’ alone are included. Drawing a parallel, senior counsel Kapil Sibal, also appearing for AIMPLB, said that as some people believe that Lord Rama was born in Ayodhya and it was a matter of faith and could not be adjudicated, similarly Muslim personal law too was a matter of faith and the court should be shy from stepping in. (IANS)
