Supreme Court rejects multiple petitions challenging ordinance on Triple Talaq, passed by the BJP government

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed multiple petitions challenging the triple talaq ordinance, passed by the government in September. The apex court bench led by the Chief justice held that the ordinance is valid for six months and two have already passed and winter session of the parliament will also be happening soon, hence, it didn’t find it necessary to intervene in the matter.

“This easy resort of Ordinance is a fraud on the constitution”, urged senior counsel Raju Ramachandran.

To which the Chief Justice replied that “There is no need to go so high as to call it a fraud. If we were to issue notice on the petition but not stay the operation of the ordinance, of what benefit would it be?”

The petition was later on put on hold by the Chief Justice, in which he held that, either the counsel withdraws the petition or the bench will dismiss it.

The petition had stated that “…the impugned Ordinance applies across the country and has thus has national ramifications. The Ordinance has introduced penal legislation, specific to a class of persons based on religious identity. It is causative of grave public mischief, which, if unchecked, may lead to polarization and disharmony in soviety,” as reported by the LiveLaw.

The triple talaq ordinance 2018 was passed by the Union Cabinet and later on signed by the President Ram Nath Kovind on September 19. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said that there was an “overpowering urgency” and a “compelling necessity” to pass the ordinance as the practice of triple talaq was being continued, even after the judgement of the Supreme Court.

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