triple talaq law

In August 2017, the Supreme Court banned the practice of instant triple talaq. Meet Aafreen Rehman, one of the women who filed a petition against this practice after her husband divorced her via speed post.

Her in-laws ridiculed her desire to study and forced her to do domestic household chores.

Flavia Agnes is a noted gender rights lawyer and director of Majlis, a Mumbai-based organisation that provides legal initiatives for women. She is a strong supporter of legal pluralism and the premise of ‘reforms from within’.