For five days, the country’s five senior most judges have heard lawyers argue that triple talaq wasn’t just a centuries-old practice but also an integral part of Islam.
Chief Justice of India JS Khehar had a question after the court had heard one of the lawyers wax eloquent how the practice was intrinsic to Islam.
“You recite namaz in mosque every Friday. In that prayer, you say triple talaq is a sin and bad. How can you say it is integral part of Islam,” the Chief Justice, who is heading the five-judge constitution bench asked him.
Whether triple talaq is an integral part of Islam or not will be key to how the judges will rule once they sit down to pen their judgement. If they conclude it is, there may not be an awful lot that the top court will do given how they have zeroed in on points that they will respond in their verdict.
Over the last few days, however, there haven’t been too many organisations that have unequivocally backed triple talaq anyways.
