<p class="title">The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), the apex body of Indian Muslims, termed the Triple Talaq ordinance a "murder of democracy" and an "insult to Parliament" on Thursday.</p>.<p class="title">The ordinance, brought by the Centre last week, made triple talaq a criminal offence.</p>.<p class="title">Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, AIMPLB secretary and spokesperson Moulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani said the NDA government has brought the ordinance through the backdoor.</p>.<p class="title">"This is not a very urgent issue and there was ample room for making the legislation democratically after seeking public opinion," he said.</p>.<p class="title">He further added that Muslim women have already rejected the ordinance and it was not acceptable to the Muslim community.</p>.<p class="title">Answering a question on whether the board will move court against the legislation, he said that board's legal committee will look into it.</p>.<p class="title">Rahmani called the legislation an interference in the Shariat and said the government drafted the bill without consulting the community.</p>.<p class="title">"The government also rejected the demand for referring the bill to a select committee, which would have given an opportunity to the community or its representative organisations, such as the AIMPLB, to put forth their point of view," he said.</p>.<p class="title">Rahmani said the ordinance punishes men who have not committed any crime. He asked why when a man's Triple Talaq pronouncement will not come into effect anyway he has to be sent to jail for three years.</p>.<p class="title">He said the the criminalisation of Triple Talaq will increase the number of women deserted by their husbands.</p>.<p class="title">"Consider the condition of a woman who is neither divorced nor supported financially by her husband. This will deny her an opportunity to start life afresh," he said.</p>.<p class="title">AIMPLB member and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said the ordinance will anyway lapse in since six months.</p>.<p class="title">He said the Supreme Court, in its verdict on the Triple Talaq issue, did not ask the government to bring legal provisions.</p>.<p class="title">Owaisi said marriage in Islam is a social contract and applying penal provisions is unconstitutional and a violation of fundamental rights.</p>
<p class="title">The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), the apex body of Indian Muslims, termed the Triple Talaq ordinance a "murder of democracy" and an "insult to Parliament" on Thursday.</p>.<p class="title">The ordinance, brought by the Centre last week, made triple talaq a criminal offence.</p>.<p class="title">Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, AIMPLB secretary and spokesperson Moulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani said the NDA government has brought the ordinance through the backdoor.</p>.<p class="title">"This is not a very urgent issue and there was ample room for making the legislation democratically after seeking public opinion," he said.</p>.<p class="title">He further added that Muslim women have already rejected the ordinance and it was not acceptable to the Muslim community.</p>.<p class="title">Answering a question on whether the board will move court against the legislation, he said that board's legal committee will look into it.</p>.<p class="title">Rahmani called the legislation an interference in the Shariat and said the government drafted the bill without consulting the community.</p>.<p class="title">"The government also rejected the demand for referring the bill to a select committee, which would have given an opportunity to the community or its representative organisations, such as the AIMPLB, to put forth their point of view," he said.</p>.<p class="title">Rahmani said the ordinance punishes men who have not committed any crime. He asked why when a man's Triple Talaq pronouncement will not come into effect anyway he has to be sent to jail for three years.</p>.<p class="title">He said the the criminalisation of Triple Talaq will increase the number of women deserted by their husbands.</p>.<p class="title">"Consider the condition of a woman who is neither divorced nor supported financially by her husband. This will deny her an opportunity to start life afresh," he said.</p>.<p class="title">AIMPLB member and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said the ordinance will anyway lapse in since six months.</p>.<p class="title">He said the Supreme Court, in its verdict on the Triple Talaq issue, did not ask the government to bring legal provisions.</p>.<p class="title">Owaisi said marriage in Islam is a social contract and applying penal provisions is unconstitutional and a violation of fundamental rights.</p>
