HC Seeks Centre's Reply on Plea to Quash Provision Penalising Muslim Husband for Pronouncing Talaq
News 18The Delhi High Court has sought the Centre's reply on a plea seeking to declare as unconstitutional the provision penalising a Muslim husband for pronouncing 'talaq' upon his wife. The plea said as the pronouncement of triple talaq' or talaq-e-biddat' is already declared void, the provision in law to penalise such an act is onerous and inconsequential. A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rajnish Bhatnagar refused to stay, however, investigations or trials in all the FIRs registered in Delhi under Section 4 of the Muslim Women Act, 2019, till pendency of the present petition. Prima facie it appears to us that the object of Section 4 of the aforesaid Act is to discourage the age old and traditional practice of pronouncement of talaq by a Muslim husband upon his wife by resort to talaq-e-biddat i.e.