Recently, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court decided to hear a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the practice of Nikah Halala allowed by Muslim personal law.
Nikah-Halala: It is a practice under which a woman who wishes to remarry the man who gave her triple talaq, first has to get married to another man, consummate the marriage, get divorced, and observe a period of separation called ‘iddat’ or ‘iddah’. Only after this can she marry her ex-husband.
