Muslim outfit hails talaq verdict, demands uniform civil code

[Paranoid Android]

Appealing to Muslims to welcome the "positive" verdict and the upcoming legislation, MSM president Shamsuddin Tamboli said the judgement will strengthen the movement demanding justice for Muslim women in the country.

Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal (MSM), a progressive and reformist outfit, today welcomed the Supreme Court verdict to set aside the practice of divorce through triple talaq. Appealing to Muslims to welcome the “positive” verdict and the upcoming legislation, MSM president Shamsuddin Tamboli said the judgement will strengthen the movement demanding justice for Muslim women in the country.

“Due to inbuilt limitations of the Supreme Court, it has asked the Central government to enact a legislation in the next six months and since Parliament is the topmost platform to enact laws in the country, Muslims should welcome today’s verdict and upcoming legislation wholeheartedly,” he said.

Founded by rationalist and thinker Hamid Dalwai in 1970, MSM has been campaigning for the rights of Muslim women. The organisation has been demanding scrapping of practices such as triple talaq, ‘nikah halala’ and polygamy in Muslim community. Tamboli said it is now the responsibility of government to enact an effective law so that Muslim women will get the due respect and justice.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been talking about equal rights to Muslim women. Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal is looking at him with a lot of hope,” he said. Tamboli said the court today said they will not touch issues like polygamy and ‘halala’. “However, issues of Muslim women are not limited to triple talaq only. Polygamy, halala, adoption and the right to property are the real raging issues for the women. If all these issues are to be addressed, then the Muslim personal law should be reformed radically,” he said.

Tamboli said the government should also take a further step to implement Uniform Civil Code. “The blueprint or the draft of the UCC should be prepared as soon as possible so that misunderstandings and misinterpretations about it will stop, as without a concrete draft of UCC, discussions on it will be futile and will lead nowhere,” he said.

MSM member and writer Mahboob Gaus Sayyad (Sayyadbhai) said the talaq verdict will give strength to Muslim women. One of the victims of triple talaq, Arshiya Bagwan, who was given an instant talaq by her husband over a petty issue last year, also welcomed the verdict.

http://indianexpress.com/article/in...q-verdict-demands-uniform-civil-code-4808971/

 

[Paranoid Android]

 

[Grevion]

UCC is still long way to go.

 

[ashok321]

 

[Gadkari]

Modi has not taken divorce from this woman on her own request. He let her hang on to that marriage because that is what SHE WANTED.

I know I would not have done that. But He did, and that makes him a better man than me. It makes him a better man than most people I know.

Now choke on that.

 

[PRC]

For all the Indians who are thinking that this is a great judgement, they should understand the right to give talaq unilaterally is still valid for an Indian Male Muslim. In the garb of personal law, they can still unilaterally divorce their wives (s is intentional). The only thing this verdict delivers is the ban on instant triple talaq. And then also, there is no law right now present in the IPC that can be applied when the husband abandons his wife.
It might be a great start but Indians, in general, need to understand that there was no secular democratic country other than India which had this kind law. Unless the personal law is codified and minimized, with a greater thrust on UCC by the Indian govt., I don't see what exactly we are celebrating here. This was such a low hanging fruit that it makes me sad that even to achieve this we took so much of time. Even Pakistan was able to regulate this treachery but here in India, the Pseudo Secularist lobby prevented this for such a long time.