• A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging divorce through Talaq-e-Hasan, a practice by which by a Muslim man can divorce his wife by saying the word “talaq” once a month for three months.

Talaq-e-Ahsan:

• Under this form, a single revocable divorce is made (unlike multiple pronouncements under triple talaq)
• Following the pronouncement, a woman has to go through iddat or a waiting period of three months.
• During this period the divorce can be cancelled. However, failure to annul divorce during this period results in it being finalized after which a woman is independent and free to marry another man or stay single, as she may choose.
• Talaq-e-Hasan enjoys legal validity in almost all Muslim countries.
• It is essential that this form of divorce is pronounced when the wife is not menstruating and there has to be a gap of one month between the three pronouncements. The duration of these three consecutive talaqs is called the period of abstinence.
• The duration of abstinence or ‘iddat’ is 90 days or three menstrual cycles or three lunar months