(The Gist of PIB) Parliament passes the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2019
[AUGUST-2019]

Parliament passes the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2019

• Parliament passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2019. 

About: 

• The Bill would help in protecting the rights of married Muslim women and prevent divorce by practice of ‘talaq-e-biddat’ by their husbands.

Salient features of the bill: 

• It declares the practice of triple talaq as void and illegal.
• It makes this offence punishable with imprisonment up to three years and fine.
• It provides for payment of subsistence allowance to married Muslim women and dependent children.
• It proposes to make the offence cognizable, if information relating to the commission of an offence is given to a police officer by the married Muslim woman upon whom talaq is pronounced or by any person related to her by blood or marriage.
• The offence is made compoundable with the permission of the Magistrate at the instance of the married Muslim woman upon whom talaq is pronounced.
• It further provides for hearing the married Muslim woman upon whom talaq is pronounced, before the accused is released on bail by the Magistrate.

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