New Delhi Aug 22 (IANS) Social activist Shabnam Hashmi on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict striking down triple talaq but expressed doubts about it becoming a law saying the issue can be "politicised" and used by different parties for their own benefit.
Earlier on Tuesday the Supreme Court in a majority judgement held triple talaq being practised by the Muslim community as "unconstitutional" "arbitrary" and "not part of Islam".
However two judges in a minority judgement said triple talaq is "integral to Islamic practices and enjoys constitutional protection".
It urged the parliament to pass a law to deal with the issue.
"I welcome the judgement. That s very good. If the next process is of making the law then that can create a problem. All those different sections of the Muslim fundamentalists and Hindu fundamentalists would again get into it " Hashmi told IANS folowing the judgement.
"It s mandatory to make a law but I hope the process of lawmaking is not politicised " she added saying that she was afraid all kinds of religious groups were going to use it.
She said the Prime Minister is not concerned about women s issues. "He wants to use them is a different thing."
"(In a) country which says marital rape is fine a country which sends an adult woman back to her home and declares an NIA enquiry in love jihad... I haven t heard the Prime Minister say anything about that... not a word on his own wife and her abandonment."
She wished that the court had not directed parliament to make a law on triple talaq and the judgement ended with its ban.
--IANS
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