Ordinance Banning Instant Triple Talaq (or talaq-e-biddah)

Sacchar Committee observed in its report that the contemporary status of Muslims in India was abysmally low and deprivation prevailed. This deprivation within the community stems from a shortage of three essentials:

• Knowledge (measured by literacy and average years of schooling),
• Economic power (measured by work and income),
• Autonomy (measured by decision-making and physical mobility).

It is in this context the plight of Muslim women needs to be conceptualised. Gender discrimination coalesces with class inequalities and pervasive social hierarchies to compound the marginalisation of Muslim women. Banning Instant triple talaq is one such step to realise the idea of gender equality ....