New Delhi: While the larger Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court is due to adjudicate upon the legal aspects of triple talaq and polygamy, a large number of Muslim women have raised their voice against what they call 'cruel' Islamic traditions in order to end their suffering.


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Now, Nida Khan - a woman from Bareilly - has written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath urging him to abolish the Islamic practice to dissolve the marriage. 


Khan, a victim of triple talaq, has taken to the social media appealing Yogi Adityanath for the abolition of what she calls 'anti-women Islamic tradition'.


Earlier, raising her voice against triple talaq, a pregnant woman Shagufta Shah had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to abolish the 'evil Islamic tradition' at the earliest.


Shah decided to write to the Prime Minister about her ordeal after she was  'disowned' by her husband when she refused to abort her third child.


In her letter, Shah spoke eloquently about the pain she was subjected to when she became pregnant for the third time and how her husband Shamshad Sayeed wanted her to terminate the pregnancy, fearing that the third born may also be a girl.


She has also sent a copy of the letter to the UP CM.


The apex court today referred various petitions against triple talaq to the larger Constitution Bench, which will start hearing from May 11.


Meanwhile, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has opposed the PILs filed against the controversial triple talaq in the apex court, stating that petition against the Muslim Law Board is 'not maintainable'.


The Muslim body has claimed that any order against triple talaq would be an infringement on their right to follow and profess any religion.


Many Muslim-majority counties such as Pakistan and Indonesia have removed this practise, but India, with world's third-largest Muslim population continues to allow it.