Things went out of hand during a live debate on Zee Hindustan, when Maulana Ejaz Arshad Qasmi raised his hands against an advocate fighting against Triple Talaq. Qasmi raised his hands against Farah Faiz, an advocate during a live debate. He has been arrested by the police from Zee Media’s office after a complaint filed by Zee Hindustan’s complaint.

Farah Faiz had said in the debate that triple talaq is not a form of divorce recognised in Quran.

She said during the debate: “The practice of talaq-e-bidat without proper conciliation violates the basic right of every Muslim woman to live with dignity adding that Muslim women have become victims of gender discrimination in the absence of proper codified rules governing marriage, divorce and maintenance.

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Faiz, who runs an NGO Muslim Women’s Quest for Equality in Uttar Pradesh, is also national president (honorary) of the RSS-associated Rashtrawadi Muslim Mahila Sangh.

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Farah Faiz, now a Supreme Court lawyer, is one of the petitioners in the triple talaq case. "The Holy Quran is in mandatory language. It is not an advise. If we are adopting one procedure for marriage, why can't we have one procedure for talaq also?" she had told the court.

She had also alleged that the Muslim clerics were running a parallel judicial system like the trial courts and the high courts and the clerics were forcing Muslims not to go to the courts.

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“Muslim women definitely are secure under Sharia law but what the Personal Law Board is doing (is) giving significance to triple talaq and nikaah halala which are not written in the Quran. The AIMPLB is not even a legal entity, it is just an NGO. They have a misleading name which has for years misguided both the Muslims and the Indian government,” she told SheThePeople.TV.

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On Monday, the Imam of Bareilly's Jama Masjid issued a fatwa, a ruling on a point of Islamic law, against a woman who had been opposing several Islamic practices, including Triple Talaq, and demonstrating against the same.

The woman, Nida Khan, had been opposing practices such as Triple Talaq, Halala, Bahu Vivah, and so on. She was the wife of a relative of the Imam and was also a victim of Triple Talaq. She had been fighting for the justice for many other victims of the laws that she had termed 'Non-Islamic'.

"Nida Khan has been ostracised from Islam because she has been regularly speaking against the religion and its practices. A fatwa has been issued against her. No Muslim is to maintain contact with her until she publicly apologises and retracts her anti-Islam stand," said Imam Khurshid Alam while addressing a press conference.

In response, Khan said, "Who are they to oust me from Islam. I will be liable to take this issue directly to the Supreme Court if they try to exploit my constitutional, fundamental human rights. They are trying to spoil my image."

Earlier in the day, a woman from Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli filed a complaint with the police, alleging that her husband gave Triple Talaq to her for giving birth to a girl child.

The woman alleged that her husband and in-laws even thrashed her and demanded a dowry for giving birth to a baby girl a week ago.

(With inptus from ANI)