Which state has become the India's first state to endorse Centre’s triple talaq draft bill?
Q. Which state has become the India's first state to endorse Centre’s triple talaq draft bill?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
Notes: Uttar Pradesh has become the first State to endorse the Central government’s draft bill that makes instant triple talaq a cognisable and non-bailable offence. The draft law, which provides for three-year imprisonment and a fine to a man trying to divorce his wife by uttering “talaq” three times, got the State government’s approval at a Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow on December 5, 2017.

 

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