New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday said its primary focus is to provide relief to two women, who claimed to be victims of Talaq-E-Hasan, before deciding the constitutional validity of this form of divorce. Triple talaq or 'Talaq-e-Hasan' is a form of divorce in Muslims by which a man can divorce his wife by pronouncing talaq once every month over a three-month period.
A bench comprising Justices S K Kaul and Abhay S Oka impleaded the husbands of the petitioners and sought their response on the plea filed by them. "We thought that you wanted a remedy for yourselves. We will issue notice to the husbands alone at this stage and issue notice on this limited aspect. Our concern is sometimes in the endeavour to raise a larger issue, what relief the parties need gets lost," the bench said.
"There are two people before us, who need relief and we are concerned with that. We will see later what are the issues remaining," the bench also comprising Justice Abhay S Oka said. The top court was hearing separate pleas filed by Benazeer Heena and Nazreen Nisha challenging the constitutional validity of the practice of Talaq-e-Hasan.