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India's parliament has passed a bill criminalizing the controversial Muslim practice of instant divorce -- "triple talaq" -- and making it punishable with up to three years in prison. The age-old practice, allows a Muslim man to divorce his wife by simply saying the Arabic word for divorce, "talaq", three times.
India's Upper House of Parliament passed the bill on Tuesday -- the third time the bill has come up for a vote in the upper house. In 2017, India's Supreme Court found that the controversial divorce practice was unconstitutional. The bill becomes a law once it is signed by the president, considered a formality.
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