SRINAGAR: Senior congress leader and former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Nabi Azad today questioned the government’s intention behind being so keen to legislate on the triple talaq issue, because the need for legislation was stressed upon in a minority judgment and it wasn’t the unanimous view of the entire bench.
Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “Will you now implement each and every minority judgment given by the Supreme Court till date? If that is the case, I will like to see when will you bring in a law against mob lynching.”
Azad said the SC has called triple talaq illegal. If I threaten to kill myself will you hang me? No. If the Supreme Court has made triple talaq illegal, what is the punishment for?
He added “don’t compare Indian Muslims with other Islamic nations. You didn’t bring legislation on lynchings despite court orders. The government is selectively using the Supreme Court to make its own laws.
The government is not ready to help the victim of triple talaq but is more interested in arresting the husband. Will we also bring Islamic nation concepts like flogging, decapacitation, dismembering and ISI?” asks Ghulam Nabi Azad in Parliament. Instead of allaying our apprehensions, the BJP has done cosmetic surgery on the bill. In Islam, marriage is a civil contract but it is being made criminal. It is being made a cognisable offence he said. (PTK)
