<p>The Supreme Court on Monday refused to urgently list a batch of petitions challenging the legal validity of 'nikah halala' and polygamy practices among Muslims.</p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, however, said it would consider setting up of a five-judge constitution bench to examine the matter.</p>.<p>Senior advocate V Shekhar and advocate Ashwini Kumar Updhayay, appearing for Delhi-based Sameena Begum, sought an urgent hearing, alleging she has been threatened to withdraw the petition.</p>.<p>“We will list her petition along with other petitions,” the bench said.</p>.<p>The apex court, which on August 22 last year had banned the age-old practice of instant 'triple talaq' among Sunni Muslims, had on March 26 this year decided to refer to a larger bench a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of polygamy and 'nikah halala' among Muslims.</p>.<p>While polygamy allows a Muslim man to have four wives, 'nikah halala' deals with the process in which a Muslim woman, who wants to re-marry her husband after divorce, has to first marry another person and get a divorce from the second person after the consummation.</p>.<p>Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, said the government will file its response to the petitions.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Monday refused to urgently list a batch of petitions challenging the legal validity of 'nikah halala' and polygamy practices among Muslims.</p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, however, said it would consider setting up of a five-judge constitution bench to examine the matter.</p>.<p>Senior advocate V Shekhar and advocate Ashwini Kumar Updhayay, appearing for Delhi-based Sameena Begum, sought an urgent hearing, alleging she has been threatened to withdraw the petition.</p>.<p>“We will list her petition along with other petitions,” the bench said.</p>.<p>The apex court, which on August 22 last year had banned the age-old practice of instant 'triple talaq' among Sunni Muslims, had on March 26 this year decided to refer to a larger bench a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of polygamy and 'nikah halala' among Muslims.</p>.<p>While polygamy allows a Muslim man to have four wives, 'nikah halala' deals with the process in which a Muslim woman, who wants to re-marry her husband after divorce, has to first marry another person and get a divorce from the second person after the consummation.</p>.<p>Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, said the government will file its response to the petitions.</p>