Talaq-E-Hasan: SC says its primary focus is to provide relief to petitioner women

'Talaq-e-Hasan' is a form of divorce in Muslims by which a man can divorce his wife by pronouncing talaq once every month over a three-month period

The Supreme Court on Monday said its primary focus is to provide relief to two women, who claimed to be victims of Talaq-E-Hasan, before deciding the constitutional validity of the form of divorce, which is pronounced once a month by a Muslim man, over a period of three months.

Dealing with their plea against the validity of Talaq-e-Hasan filed by two women, a bench of Justices S K Kaul and Abhay S Oka impleaded the husbands of the petitioners and sought their response.

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“We thought that you wanted a remedy for yourselves. We will issue notice to the husbands alone at this stage and issue notice on this limited aspect. Our concern is sometimes in the endeavour to raise a larger issue, what relief the parties need gets lost,” the bench said.

“There are two people before us, who need relief and we are concerned with that. We will see later what are the issues remaining,” the bench said.

Benazeer Heena and Nazreen Nisha challenged the constitutional validity of the practice of Talaq-e-Hasan. They were represented by senior advocates Shyam Divan and Ranjit Kumar respectively.

The court put the matter for further hearing on October 11.