New Delhi: The government move to bring in a legislation in the winter session of Parliament providing for three years of jail term for those giving instant triple talaq has evoked objections from some Muslim leaders.
Veteran civil servant Dr Syed Zafar Mehmud, who was also OSD to the Sachar Committee set up to report on the social, economic and educational backwardness of Muslims, said it would have been better if the government had consulted a cross section of community leaders in the drafting of the law.