Triple Talaq Bill conflicts Civil Law and Criminal Law: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday opposed the introduction of Triple Talaq Bill who said even as he is against the instant Talaw, he is opposed to criminalization of a civil offence.
Tharoor while suggesting that the scope of the bill should be extended to all communities said “abandoning or deserting wives and dependents is not unique to the Muslim community why not make a law which universally criminalizes the abandonment of family and dependents”.
“I am not defending tripple Talaq when I'm opposing the text and drafts and thrust of this bill. This bill conflicts civil law and criminal law by criminalizing the act of triple talaq which is an irregular form of divorce. Already null and void in our country post the decision of the Supreme Court in Shayara Banu v/s Union of India” Tharoor clarified.
Tharoor while calling the bill ‘class legislation pointed at one community’ said the bill is in violation of the Article 14 and 15 of the constitution. Tharoor noted “By framing a law specifically criminalizing Muslim husbands for a void act that is already declared void by the Supreme Court of India, without having an universally applicable law for desertion the bill is a textbook example of a class legislation which is pointed at one community and class. And this violates the Article 14 and 15 of the Constitution”.
Pointing that the bill does no good to improve the status of Muslim women, Tharoor said “The bill does nothing to improve the status of Muslim women who suffer from numerous other difficulties including the right unilateral divorce by their husbands being coerced to engage in Nikah halal and so on therefore this bill cannot be right under article 21 of the constitution”.
Tharoor also urged the speaker to refer the bill to the standing committee before concluding his remarks on the introduction of the bill.
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Surat LS candidate Nilesh Kumbhani whose nomination form was rejected suspended from Congress
Ahmedabad, Apr 25: The Gujarat Congress on Friday suspended from the party for six years its Surat Lok Sabha candidate Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form was rejected over discrepancies leading to the BJP's Mukesh Dalal getting elected unopposed.
A statement from the Congress said the party's disciplinary committee decided to suspend Kumbhani after thorough discussion, adding it had come to the conclusion that the nomination form was rejected due to gross negligence on his part or "in connivance with the BJP".
"To be fair to you we have given time to you to explain your case but instead of coming before the party disciplinary committee you have gone incommunicado. After your form was rejected by the authorities, BJP went ahead and got form of other eight candidates withdrawn. This has deprived people of Surat their voting rights," the Congress disciplinary committee headed by Balu Patel said.
"People of Surat and party workers have become very angry due to your action and are expressing their anger in different ways. The Congress party has decided to suspend you for six years from the party," the press note said.
Kumbhani's nomination form was rejected on April 21 after his three proposers submitted affidavits to the district returning officer claiming the signatures on the document was not theirs.
The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the Congress' substitute candidate from Surat, was also invalidated on the same grounds.
In his order, Returning Officer Sourabh Pardhi said the three nomination forms submitted by Kumbhani and Padsala were rejected after prima facie discrepancy was found in the signatures of the proposers and they did not appear to be genuine.
Kumbhani, a former corporator from Surat, had unsuccessfully fought the 2022 Assembly polls from Kamrej there.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed from Surat Lok Sabha constituency on April 22 after all other nominees, including one from BSP, withdrew from the fray one by one on the last day of withdrawing papers.
