SC to examine constitutional validity of polygamy, 'nikah halala'

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of polygamy and nikah halala among Muslims and sought responses from the Centre and the law commission.

A Constitution bench would hear the petitions, said the court, which while quashing triple talaq in 2017 had refused to look into these two issues.On Monday, a bench headed by Chief Justice



Dipak Misra said a fresh five-judge constitution bench would look into nikah halala and polygamy that allows a Muslim man to have four wives, a practice that described as violating a woman’s right to equality.

Nikah halala lets a divorced Muslim woman to remarry her former husband but after she marries another man and divorces him after consummating the marriage.