After LS, triple talaq bill passed in Rajya Sabha with 99 votes in favour

With Rajya Sabha now approving it, the practice of instant divorce by Muslim men will be punishable by jail term of up to three years

Current Affairs:-Parliament on Tuesday endorsed the bill that makes moment triple talaq a criminal offense, after the quarrelsome enactment was passed by Rajya Sabha following neutral BJD expanding backing and NDA constituents JD-U and AIADMK exiting.

Lok Sabha had passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill a week ago and with Rajya Sabha now endorsing it, the act of moment separate by Muslim men will be deserving of prison term of as long as three years.

The Upper House passed the bill by 99 cast a ballot in support and 84 against it.

It prior rejected a resistance supported movement to send the bill to a Rajya Sabha Select Committee with 100 votes against it when contrasted with 84 in support.

While BJD upheld the enactment, JD-U and AIADMK exited, bringing down the greater part mark which ordinarily remains at 121. The decision NDA has 107 individuals in the 242-part Rajya Sabha.

The NDA was additionally helped by the nonattendance of certain individuals from SP and BSP just as those of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and YSR-Congress.

A similar procedure had helped the administration push through the hostile correction to the Right To Information (RTI) Act a week ago in spite of lacking numbers in the Upper House.

Once conceded consent by the President, the bill will supplant a statute proclaimed keep going on February 21 to a similar impact as the bill.

Answering to a four-and-half-hour banter on the Bill, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad refered to prison arrangements in the enactments that boycott endowment and numerous relational unions by Hindu men to legitimize the three-year correctional facility term for Muslim men practices triple talaq.

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