A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi dismissed a plea of a Kerala-based outfit and said it will not like to interfere.

The Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 17 to replace an ordinance issued in September.

In Pakistan and Bangladesh, it requires the man who wishes to divorce his wife to give the 'arbitration council' a written notice of his ha...

The Uttarakhand BJP had earlier considered taking 35-year-old Shayra Bano, one of the original petitioners against instant talaq in the Sup...

As per the new legislation, a sentence of three years can be awarded to those who indulge in instant triple talaq (talaq-e-biddat).

Just as Congress stand in the Shah Bano case was made with an eye on minority votes, its stance on instant talaq is aimed at keeping intact...

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board and various women's groups too are ranged against the bill. The women's groups are particularly opp...

Prasad said many Muslim women had met him and requested for a stringent penal provision against the practice of "talaq-e-biddat" or instant...

By heeding to Congress and Opposition demand, BJP would be ceding some of the credit for the bill to them, a scenario not acceptable to the...

The bill makes grant of instant talaq a cognisable and a non-bailable offence. Any Muslim woman subjected to instant talaq can approach a C...

The Bill which makes instant triple talaq illegal and void and awarding a jail term of up to three years to the husband was introduced in t...

The Minister of State for External Affairs noted that the legislation would "benefit the country...community and the nation ...and will pro...

The draft bill says, "any pronouncement of talaq by a person upon his wife, by words, either spoken or written or in electronic form or in ...

Law Minister Ravi Shankar said the government believed that the proposed bill would help ensure gender justice, gender equality and dignity...

The Supreme Court had declared the age-old Islamic practice as arbitrary and unconstitutional in August, but reports of instant triple tala...

The Muslim Women Protection of Rights in Marriage Act is meant to ensure Muslim men do not indulge in instant triple talaq, declared illega...

The AIMPLB today told the Supreme Court that it has issued "guidelines for the husband and wife at the time of dispute" which has to be fol...