ending in marriage by saying or writing the word arabic for divorce three times in succession india supreme court ruled in august that instant divorces were unconstitutional within twenty muslim countries around the world have already banned the controversial practice. and. is in delhi for us for more on this story issues good to see you how did this bill come about was it something that muslim women were pushing for. but what we've seen in the last couple of months here has been truly significant in the sense that you know this is a instant triple toe lock is a practice that has been outlawed in many muslim majority countries for quite a while already but in india perhaps because it is not a muslim majority country the situation is a little tricky here you see there were a lot of concerns about potentially upset ing india's secular fabric by by interfering in what could be seen as the as a religious minorities. religious minorities personal law in india different religious groups have their own personal law when it comes to dealing with issues like divorce and marriage that said instance is not

of ending a marriage by say or writing the word arabic for divorce three times in succession india supreme court ruled in august that instant divorce is unconstitutional more than twenty muslim countries have already banned the practice. ashish malhotra is in delhi for us ashish can you first tell us more about the idea of instant of war and how it works in india well instant divorce or instant triple the law is a practice whereby a man can divorce his wife just by uttering the word lock which means divorce three times in one moment this is different from another form of the lock which is spread out over a longer period of time usually about ninety days which allows for some reconciliation between the couple instant triple to lock obviously leaves no room for reconciliation and it's a practice that already been outlawed in many muslim majority countries but in india it's continued to happen in in the muslim community and the reason that is because it was it's really because of concerns about potentially disrupting the secular makeup of india about infringing upon religious rights because the sit

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india's supreme court ruled in august that instant divorces are unconstitutional.ore than 20 muslim countries have already banned the practice. dw's reporter for us. can you first tell us more about the idea of instant divorce and how it works in india? >> instant divorce is a practice whereby a man can divorce his wife by uttering the word that means divorce three times in one moment. this is different from another form, which is spread out over a longer period of time, usually about 90 days, which allows bsome reconciliation. this has already been outlawed in many countries. in india, this continues to happen in the muslim community. the reason that is is because of concerns about potentially disrupting the secular makeup of india. infringing upon religious rights because the situation in india, when it comes to personal law, when it comes to matters of divorce and marriage, is that different religious groups are allowed to have their own personal laws to govern the. things like this can often -- govern that. things like this can be seen as interference from the

succession all offending husbands could get up to three years in prison the bill comes after india's supreme court ruled instant divorce is unconstitutional more than twenty muslim countries around the world have already banned the practice. all the bill is not without controversy. is in india for a us ashish how important is this bill and how widespread is this practice in india . but a little of the movement that we've seen here in india on this issue in the last couple months has been truly significant as you mentioned you know this is a practice that has already been outlawed in many muslim majority countries but that wasn't the case in india even though this has been a hotly debated topic here for many years. now that's all changed obviously with the supreme court ruling in august and now with the law that was passed through last night but you know what's interesting in the indian context perhaps for an international audience is the fact is why this is taken so long and that really comes out of a desire by many stakeholders to maintain the secular fabric of india that is to not infringe upon

countries but that wasn't the case in india even though this has been a hotly debated topic here for many years. now that's all changed obviously with the supreme court ruling in august and now with the law that was passed through last night but you know what's interesting in the indian context perhaps for an international audience is the fact is why this is taken so long and that really comes out of a desire by many stakeholders to maintain the secular fabric of india that is to not infringe upon the religious minorities right to have their own personal sets of laws which is which is something that is the case here in india and things like this can be seen by some as an infringement from the central government on religious minorities raids are allowed to that point how has the indian muslim community reacted to this. well before elaborating on that i should say that you know this is a move that has widespread support even within the muslim community this is largely seen as a regressive outdated practice which which had time had come for it to go but there are segments of society that are concerned with things within the bill particular aspects of it

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succession instant divorce was banned by the indian supreme court months ago ruling that it violated women's rights and now a bill is moving through the india indian parliament that would essentially criminalize the practice you have many people on one side of this debate congratulating politicians for pushing legislation through the lower house this student organization calling it a historic move that secures universal principles of law and humanity one that will smash patriarchy and lead to gender justice and after the vote several lawmakers praised the decision is why given how big of you to move this country forward the reforms for georgians for the sisters of the muslim community equality agenda justice gender equality gender dignity this is the bill men enjoy it now is slim fifty's was facing this popular decades in the demanding and i just had to protection or any other sort of governmental protection to miss them women we've got it now that we're very happy today however the vote has also faced a lot of resistance from the opposition they say the bill is actually worse for women's rights. this is not. a light just to fill us in a mo

engineering, so i grew up in india, and one thing that really vuk me -- when once i moved here was went to free speech and protection of first amendment that this supreme courthas provided many this country. which is in my opinion taken aback when you mention free speech as a visual or conservative value and i wonder what you mean. by abuse of free speech and it is not best place for -- discussion and we know that but how do you think we can really maintain this spirit of the first amendment? going ahead? >> right, obviously, something people argue about. you can argue immaterial willing amount of people to donate to campaign is a restriction on free speech and we live in a supreme court that they'll give as much money as possible to election and that is their freedom. >> corporation people are people as well, and so, i mean, that either could be a verien lightening -- see why i actually thought that russian meddling in our election was really revealing is because it put lives of that argument a of open free speech if you really believe free speech is just absolute and it's just -- all that these russian outlet or any other meddlers were doing were put words