Muslim Personal Board must Break the Ice on Triple Talaq

The filing of a PIL by Shayara Bano in the Supreme Court, seeking justice on getting herself divorced by her husband pronouncing triple talaq on a single occasion, has raked up the ripples yet again in the print and electronic media and the lobby of feminist organisations. This Pandora’s Box is not new for the Indian Muslims and its representative body All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB). Right from Shah Bano case in 1985 to Shamim Ara case in 2002 and now the current case of Shayara Bano, all posed the same challenge to the Muslim Ummah and its organisations, including AIMPLB, as to how to address the growing unrest among a section of women of the community.
Although, AIMPLB may brush this claim aside saying that this unrest is apparently exploded out of its proportion by the media and that few letterhead organisations that do not really represent any significant portion of the community, but the question remains at its place, how to resolve the issue of triple talaq.
Unless AIMPLB categorically address this issue, it is most likely that this would keep haunting Muslims and AIMPLB time and again.
While AIMPLB, by fielding its women members, rejected the growing demand of banning triple talaq, the feminist organisations, one of whom claims to have obtained 50,000 signatures in its support, are vocal about its non-acceptability. This tussle between the two apart, a common Muslim looks up at the AIMPLB to advise suitably on this matter.
Although few in the Muslim community, including former Planning Commission member and National Commission for Women former chairperson Syeda Saiyidain Hameed, may insist that they do not agree to all of the views of AIMPLB, common Muslims understand quite enough that the Board has eminent scholars belonging to all schools of thought who would guide the community on religious lines to near perfection.
In the above circumstances, the responsibility of AIMPLB gets multiplied several times. They need to live up to the expectations of the community. If the learned scholars of AIMPLB do not come up with fresh ideas of jurisprudence in dealing with the triple talaq issue, whom do we expect to guide us? It is time AIMPLB broke the ice on this matter and came up with the options of either accepting triple talaq or alternatively look for taking the case to Darul Qada.