A grandson of Shah Bano, the woman who became the face of the legal battle for married Muslim women's rights, supports the ban on triple talaq, but says punishment for husband can make the wife's life more miserable.
The bill providing for imprisonment for husband for giving instant triple talaq was passed by Parliament on Tuesday.
In 1985, the Rajiv Gandhi government nullified, by enacting a law, the Supreme Court's landmark judgment which had ruled that Shah Bano was entitled to get maintenance from her husband, an Indore-based lawyer, who had divorced her.
Speaking to PTI here on Wednesday, Bano's grandson Jubair Ahmad Khan (45), a lawyer and tax consultant, said, "In Islamic Sharia there is no concept of divorce by uttering 'talaq' thrice. It is good that the government has enacted a law to stop this practice."
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