Supreme Court, 5-Judge bench pronounced on August 22, 2017 that Triple Talaq practice was unconstitutional by a 3:2 majority.
Triple Talaq or Talaq-e-Biddat was a practice that allowed a Muslim man to instantaneously and irrevocably divorce his wife by saying the word ‘talaq’ three times successively. Ms Shayara Bano filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the practice. She argued that it violates Muslim women’s right to equality among other constitutional freedoms. This argument was supported by
