MUSLIM WOMEN (PROTECTION OF RIGHTS ON MARRIAGE) BILL 2019

About: 

• Objective: The Bill would help in protecting the rights of married Muslim women and prevent divorce by practice of ‘talaq-e-biddat’ by their husbands.
  
  
• Salient features of the bill:
  • It declares the practice of triple talaq as void and illegal.
    
    
  • It makes this offence punishable with imprisonment up to three years and fine.
    
    
  • It provides for payment of subsistence allowance to married Muslim women and dependent children.
    
    
  • It proposes to make the offence cognizable, if information relating to the commission of an offence is given to a police officer by the married Muslim woman upon whom talaq is pronounced or by any person related to her by blood or marriage.
    
    
  • The offence is made compoundable with the permission of the Magistrate at the instance of the married Muslim woman upon whom talaq is pronounced.
    
    
  • It further provides for hearing the married Muslim woman upon whom talaq is pronounced, before the accused is released on bail by the Magistrate.