By Sona Khan
(The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court)
Posted online: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 1147 hours IST
Updated: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 0442 hours IST
The lives of Muslim women cannot be governed by archaic practices like triple talaq. Muslim women should be governed by laws that treat them as equal citizens of democratic India
It will be no consolation for Saddiqunissa, from a village near Sitapur, UP, to learn that a very ill Kiran, 27 years old and a mother of three sons, was carried in her father’s arms to the Kakardooma court in New Delhi in a desperate attempt to pursue her application to seeking maintenance from her indifferent husband. So far there have only been adjournments. Like Kiran, millions of poor women are suffering the indignities of their husband’s neglect in a country where cultural pressures lead to parents marrying their daughters off either as part of dharma or sunna (farz).
