The passage of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 criminalising triple talaq is a moment of great import for gender equality and justice and for India’s legislative history. With this bill, Parliament righted a wrong it had inflicted on its people more than two decades earlier. 

After President Kovind signs the bill, it will become the law and will replace the 1986 Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, commonly referred to as the Shah Bano Unlike the current legislation, the 1986 Act overturned the Supreme Court’s 1985 landmark ruling on the Shah Bano case that said that the religion of the spouse has no bearing on whether providing alimony and maintenance for the spouse and children after the divorce. Shah Bano’s husband to pay alimony and maintenance for.

On Tuesday morning, after passing the bill on Triple Talaq law in parliament, its is said to be that Women will be the ultimate sufferers of the triple talaq legislation as they will be damaging their homes and causing harm to their husbands, the Chief Organiser of the women's wing of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, Asma Zehra, (AIMPLB) said on Wednesday.

Not only this Zehra also stated that "It is the instigation of women and end sufferers will be women only. It is totally an anti-women bill," she said. "The lady who lands in such a problem will get nothing. In fact, she will be damaging herself in many ways. She will be damaging her home and causing a lot of harm to her husband’’.

The Bill makes the practice of pronouncement of instant triple talaq by a husband punishable with up to three years in jail. "The minute a woman goes for an appeal under this Act, she herself will damage her home," she said. She pointed out that two crore women had come out on the streets to protest against the bill. 

All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) had collected five crore signatures during a nation-wide campaign against the bill last year. "They included 2.85 crore women who opposed any kind of interference in Personal Law. Still, the Law Commission, Women Commission and Human Rights Commission did not pay heed to the voice of the majority," she said.