Supreme Court verdict today: End of triple talaq in sight?

The Supreme Court will pronounce on Tuesday its verdict on the constitutional validity of triple talaq - a practice already described by All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) as "horrendous", "sinful" and "undesirable" which has no sanction of the Holy Quran and Shariat.

The five-judge bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer will pronounce verdict on the validity of the contentious custom which is in practice for last 1,400 years but illegal in many Islamic countries.

The hearing, spread over five days from May 12 to May 18, was rooted in the apex court's October 16, 2015 order directing the separate listing of a PIL addressing the question of the rights of Muslim women.

At the outset of the hearing, the court had made it clear that it would not examine the validity of anything that formed an intrinsic part of Islamic religious practices - thereby ousting any submissions on polygamy.