Triple talaq in India Congress supported the Bill tabled in the Lok Sabha by law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. 19 amendments were moved in the Lok Sabha but all were rejected. Triple talaq in India Triple Talaq, also known as "talaq-e-biddat", instant divorce and "talaq-e-mughallazah" (irrevocable divorce), is a form of Islamic divorce which has been used by Muslims in India, especially adherents of Hanafi Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence. It allows any Muslim man to legally divorce his wife by stating the word "talaq" (the Arabic word for "divorce") three times in oral, written, or more recently, electronic form. The use and status
Application of Islamic law by country be considered civil law based (at least the formal legal system) and legislation is the primary source of law." It has not adopted any elements of Islamic law. Sharia states: Until 1999, Islamic law applied primarily to civil matters, but twelve of Nigeria’s thirty-six states have since extended Sharia to criminal matters. Sharia courts can order amputations, and a few have been carried out. The twelve sharia states are Zamfara, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Sokoto and Yobe. Borno, Gombe and Yobe have not yet begun to apply their Sharia Penal Codes. The rest of Nigeria