Muslim Law Board Suspends Women’s Wing Seven Years After It Was Formed

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has suspended its women’s wing, The Times of India has reported.

The Board has barred the women’s wing from holding any programme under its banner. AIMPLB general secretary Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani recently wrote to Asma Zehra, convenor of the women’s wing, asking her to delete all social media accounts of the body.

“It will remain suspended, till guidelines are former,” the letter dated 11 October said.

The AIMPLB had formed its women’s wing in 2015 on advice of Board’s then general secretary Maulana Wali Rahmani.

Zehra, a physician in Hyderabad, told the newspaper that out of 51 executive committee members of the Board, only five are women. 

Qaum Rasool Ilyas, a member of the committee, told the media that there were complains that the women’s wing was going beyond its brief. 

While launching the women’s wing in 2015, the Board had passed resolutions in favour of triple talaq, saying “Shariah laws are divine laws and cannot be modified.”