Muslim Personal Law Board inconclusive about filing of review petition against invalidity of instant triple talaq

Over three weeks after the Supreme Court declared instant triple talaq invalid in a 3:2 split vote, the executive committee of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) met on Sunday amid speculations that the committee could decide on a review petition.

While the board did not formally discuss the review petition, informal discussions were against the review,  The Indian Express quoted unnamed sources. The report stated that a review could throw open more religious practices like polygamy to judicial scrutiny. Nevertheless, in the first meeting of the board’s highest decision-making since the verdict, the AIMPLB accused the government of attempting to attack Muslim personal laws.

“The government had laid bare its intention in the form of the Attorney General’s submissions in the Hon’ble Supreme Court that all forms of dissolution of marriages without an intervention of the court should be declared as unconstitutional. We register our displeasure and consider it an attack on personal law of Muslims. This stand of the present government is contrary to the protection guaranteed by the Constitution of India,” the board said in a statement, adding, “The Community cannot and shall not tolerate such attack on personal law of Muslim community.