Landmark Judgment

One of the pathbreaking pronouncements proclaimed by Apex Court of India on "Triple Talaq" issue yesterday the August 22, 2017 will decide once for all that a practice permitted for centuries in the name of personal law cannot continue forever  after it is tested and evaluated in terms of modern day thinking for ensuring gender equality in 21st Century. Change for the better should be welcome not only for the present generation but for the decades and centuries to come.

On a broader scale we can afford to think of only two castes or communities in our country in the long run i.e only male and female and similarly we may have to recognise only one religion that acquires sanctity and sanction from the humanity is the one that declares and implements equality between male and female in all respects.

In the light of above reasoning I too salute and admire the judgment (by a majority of 3:2 in the Constitutional Bench) of the Supreme Court of India for the permanent settlement of fundamental right vis-a-vis the rigours of certain unacceptable practice in the name of religion.

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