{"id":305023,"date":"2018-11-02T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305023"},"modified":"2018-11-02T14:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:00:55","slug":"sc-refuses-to-entertain-petitions-challenging-triple-talaq-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-refuses-to-entertain-petitions-challenging-triple-talaq-ordinance\/","title":{"rendered":"SC refuses to entertain petitions challenging Triple Talaq Ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-permits-reservation-in-promotion-to-sc-st-employees\/supreme-court-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-299685\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299685 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court on November 2 refused to entertain petitions challenging the ordinance on Triple Talaq. The top court said it did not find it necessary to interfere in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A three-judge SC bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, refused to entertain petitions filed before the court challenging the constitutional validity of the ordinance issued by the Centre, making Triple Talaq an offense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The petition had been filed by a Muslim group Samastha Kerala Jamiat Ulema, which argued that the Triple Talaq ordinance \u201cis violative of Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Constitution and, accordingly, requires to be struck down\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The group also added it is \u201calso unconstitutional for failing to satisfy the mandatory requirements of Article 123 of the Constitution\u201d. Article 123 enables promulgation of ordinances only in instances requiring \u201cimmediate action\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It further stated \u201cThe absence of emergent reasons negates any invocation of the provision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On September 19, the ordinance on Triple Talaq was passed by the Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on November 2 refused to entertain petitions challenging the ordinance on Triple Talaq. The top court said it did not find it necessary to interfere in it. A three-judge SC bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, refused to entertain petitions filed before the court challenging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9453,134,3649],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305024,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305023\/revisions\/305024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}