New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it may consider referring the challenge to the validity of Talaq-e-Hasan, a form of divorce among Muslims in India, to a larger five-judge constitution bench while deprecating the practice of sending notices on the husband’s behalf.

Through Talaq-e-Hasan, a man can dissolve a marriage by pronouncing the word “talaq” once every month over a three-month period.

In 2017, the top court declared Triple Talaq, also a form of divorce prevalent among Muslim community, as unconstitutional after finding it to be arbitrary and violative of fundamental rights of Muslim women.

A bench of justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan and N Kotiswar Singh which deprecated the practice adopted by Muslim husbands while giving Talaq-e-Hasan under which they authorises

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