The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Monday filed a petition in the Supreme Court opposing the PIL which has challenged the validity of nikah halala’ and polygamy among Muslims.

In its plea, the Muslim board has said legal issues like polygamy and other practices have already been decided in earlier judgments and that such PILs challenging religious practice cannot be filed by a person who is not a part of that religious denomination.

All India Muslim Personal Law Board today filed an Intervention Application (IA) opposing the PIL seeking 'ban on polygamy, nikah halala, nikah mutah, nikah misyar and Sharia Court' ANI (@ANI) January 27, 2020

AIMPLB and other organisations already exist to protect rights of Muslim women, it said.

This is in reference to a petition filed by lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. The plea challengs the Islamic practice of polygamy and nikah halala.

While polygamy allows a Muslim man to have more than one wife, 'nikah halala' is a practice in which a woman, after being divorced by Triple Talaq, marries another man and gets divorced again in order to be able to remarry her former husband.

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage), Bill, which has received Presidential assent criminalises instant talaq and provides for a jail term of three years for the husband.

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