India moves to ban practice that allows men to divorce women by texting a word 3 times
The era of divorcing women in India with a “triple talaq” is over, after the Indian government voted to ban the Muslim instantaneous divorce practice on Wednesday.
According to the Associated Press, the government moved to outlaw the Muslim Personal Law policy allowing men to divorce their wives by saying the Arabic word for divorce, talaq, three times. The communication didn’t need to be in person, or consecutively, allowing any man to deliver the “triple talaq” over telephone, text, or social media.
India’s government has another six months for Parliament to approve the new ordinance. A law criminalizing the practice, giving offenders three years in prison, attempted to pass last year but was opposed at the upper house, where critics disagreed with the sentences and sought a le...